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An Essay on the Principle of Population (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as demography)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,921 ratings — published 1798
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as demography)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,948 ratings — published 2019
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as demography)
avg rating 3.73 — 676 ratings — published 2019
What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as demography)
avg rating 3.82 — 728 ratings — published 2013
Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as demography)
avg rating 3.91 — 129 ratings — published 2010
After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as demography)
avg rating 3.88 — 529 ratings — published 2025
Why Demography Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as demography)
avg rating 3.76 — 21 ratings — published
A Concise History of World Population: Fourth Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as demography)
avg rating 3.61 — 133 ratings — published 1992
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as demography)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,986 ratings — published 2022
The American Census: A Social History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as demography)
avg rating 3.40 — 57 ratings — published 2015
The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as demography)
avg rating 4.08 — 542 ratings — published 2020
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as demography)
avg rating 4.35 — 206,242 ratings — published 2018
Political Demography: How Population Changes are Reshaping International Security and National Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as demography)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 2011
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as demography)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,427 ratings — published 2008
Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as demography)
avg rating 3.79 — 52 ratings — published 2000
No One Left: Why the World Needs More Children (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as demography)
avg rating 3.86 — 80 ratings — published
8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as demography)
avg rating 3.67 — 187 ratings — published
Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as demography)
avg rating 3.90 — 206 ratings — published 2022
Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues, 10th Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as demography)
avg rating 3.55 — 62 ratings — published 1978
Basic Demographic Techniques and Applications (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as demography)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 1998
Demographic Engineering: Population Strategies in Ethnic Conflict (International Population Studies)
by (shelved 3 times as demography)
avg rating 1.00 — 2 ratings — published 2014
Population and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as demography)
avg rating 3.89 — 27 ratings — published 2010
Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as demography)
avg rating 3.77 — 57 ratings — published 2004
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as demography)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,092 ratings — published 2017
Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as demography)
avg rating 3.65 — 122 ratings — published 2008
A Convergence of Civilizations: The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as demography)
avg rating 3.49 — 75 ratings — published 2007
The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as demography)
avg rating 3.68 — 697 ratings — published 2014
Fertility, Biology, and Behavior: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants (Studies in Population)
by (shelved 3 times as demography)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 1983
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,555 ratings — published 2019
Decline and Prosper!: Changing Global Birth Rates and the Advantages of Fewer Children (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 3.75 — 20 ratings — published
The Population Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 3.07 — 594 ratings — published 1968
Manpower Shortage and the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published 1974
Demographics Unravelled: How Demographics Affect and Influence Every Aspect of Economics, Finance and Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 3.65 — 17 ratings — published
Building the Population Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 4.31 — 16 ratings — published 2021
Extra Time: 10 Lessons for an Ageing World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 4.05 — 283 ratings — published
2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,545 ratings — published 2020
How Population Change Will Transform Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 3.13 — 52 ratings — published
Demography: The Study of Human Population (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 3.62 — 8 ratings — published 2014
Population 10 Billion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 3.42 — 190 ratings — published 2013
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: Europe, America, and the Third World (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 38)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 3.76 — 76 ratings — published 2004
The Coming Population Crash: and Our Planet's Surprising Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 3.84 — 289 ratings — published 2010
How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 3.72 — 423 ratings — published 2011
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,753 ratings — published 2001
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,395 ratings — published 2016
The Other Population Crisis: What Governments Can Do about Falling Birth Rates (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 2013
Demography: The Study of Human Population (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 2.82 — 11 ratings — published 1985
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,913 ratings — published 2016
The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 4.00 — 39 ratings — published 1993
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as demography)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,155 ratings — published 2004
“At every moment, anyone who dares to predict the future depends largely on the projection of present trends: but as the microbiologist Rene Dubos has said, "Trend is not destiny." Malthus wisely never put much rhetorical force into his predictions of future population size. He deserves neither positive nor negative credit in this area.
A word about prediction. Embarrassing experiences, coupled with Dubos's warning, have led demographers to state repeatedly that they do not make predictions: only projections — projections of present trends. Trends may change with little warning. After two repetitions in the daily press, what begins as a projection metamorphoses into a prediction in the minds of readers. In spite of their warnings, demographers are repeatedly castigated for making predictions that don't come true.”
― The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia
A word about prediction. Embarrassing experiences, coupled with Dubos's warning, have led demographers to state repeatedly that they do not make predictions: only projections — projections of present trends. Trends may change with little warning. After two repetitions in the daily press, what begins as a projection metamorphoses into a prediction in the minds of readers. In spite of their warnings, demographers are repeatedly castigated for making predictions that don't come true.”
― The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia
“The irony of India's partition is that Muslims wrested Pakistan from the British and retained their hold over Bharat to stymie the Hindus for ever, and that's absurd.”
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