#demographics

The Slowest Death: Infertility

“If man is doomed to perish, then universal infertility is as painless a way as any.”

STONE AND PEOPLE

1690. Some thirty thousand Serbs, led personally by the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Arsenije III Čarnojević, leave Kosovo and…

The Future Won’t Have a Shortage of AI. It May Have a Shortage of People

Most conversations about artificial intelligence start with the same fear:

Demographic gravity pulls japan’s defense strategy away from its own islands

By 2060, 42 municipalities will have zero children under 15, and the Self-Defense Forces already cannot fill their ranks — geography and…

The Census Warning Wall Street Is Ignoring

How monetary policy may have delayed a demographic reality that today’s stock valuations still refuse to acknowledge.

Argentina’s Fertility Collapse: From Replacement Level to 1.2 in Under a Decade

In 2016, the country’s total fertility rate was still around replacement level (2.13 children per woman). Today, according to the latest…

Japan's demographic trap tightens as median age hits 49.2

The country's working-age population has fallen by 14 million since 1995, and no policy lever has reversed the trend for thirty years.

Mancur olson's half-century-old diagnosis of stable societies gains new relevance

Distributional coalitions in the US and Germany now extract an estimated 15-20% of GDP through rent-seeking, as demographic decline and…

South Korea’s Demographic Cliff: A Policy Map for Investors

Why understanding six overlapping ministries matters more than understanding the headline numbers

Why Most Advertising Budgets Are Distributed Blindly

Every year, companies spend millions optimizing their advertising.

From Gilead to Reality:

The World’s Declining Fertility Rates and the Search for Solutions

Why Smaller Populations Lead to a Higher Quality of Life

In an age when many nations celebrate population growth as a sign of economic strength, there is a compelling argument that smaller…

Policy Changes in IVF and Other Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) in Singapore under…

Summary: In February 2026, Singapore reported a historic low Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 0.87 for the year 2025. This unprecedented…

Beyond Family Policy: Taiwan’s Demographic Decline and the Security Challenge Ahead

Taiwan’s fertility rate fell to 0.69 in 2025, one of the lowest rates in the world. President Lai Ching-te responded by unveiling a…

Beyond Demographics: The Psychology of Communication That Actually Drives Engagement, Issue 267

Issue 267, June 4, 2026

शोकेस नेपाल: तरलता, जनसांख्यिकी र ‘तेस्रो व्याकरण’

आजको नेपाल कुनै स्थिर राजनीतिक वा आर्थिक संरचनामा छैन; यो अभूतपूर्व रूपमा ‘तरल’ (Fluid) र संवेदनशील मोडमा उभिएको छ। सतही राजनीतिक…

Pricing the Centenarian: Longevity Risk as a 40-Year ALM Challenge

As we move deeper into 2026, the institutional investment landscape is confronting an inescapable reality: humans are living longer than…

IPUMS DHS: Get Global Data Now! What is IPUMS? by Rod Sardari, PhD

#DataFam Get IPUMS DHS Global Data! IPUMS DHS now includes integrated variables for 84 counties (up from 51) and nearly 350 samples (up…

The Rational Womb

Fertility isn’t falling because people stopped wanting children. It’s falling because intelligent people are reading the same structural…

The Death of the Joint Family Safety Net: A Data Story

In 1991, less than 30% of Indian households were nuclear. By 2024, that number is estimated at over 70%. The joint family — which for…

Can China Stop Its Demographic Slide? Can the United States?

U.S. fertility rates are well above those in China but they’ve been falling for decades.

Future Threats: Part 3

Cultural Changes, Post Scarcity Solutions, Carringtons & Conclusions

The Demographic Event Horizon

Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show and the American Electorate

Why would any performer ever want to do a Super Bowl halftime show? I certainly wouldn’t.

Structural-Demographic Cycles and Population Dynamics Drive Civilizational Stability or Collapse

The Interaction of Four Main Logical Components: the General Population, the Elites, the State, and the Level of Sociopolitical Instability

Orthodox Jews Should Not Celebrate The Contracting of the Reform Movement

A few days ago I read an interesting article on YNet News about the declining membership of Reform Jewish congregations. It stirred up some…

Elastic Net Regression in R for Demography: End-to-End Case Studies

This article demonstrates how Elastic Net Regression can be applied in demography using R to handle correlated predictors, improve…

It Is Not Migration That Replaces You, But Isolation That Erases You

Falling birthrates don’t cause collapse — scapegoating the elderly, repressing women, and targeting LGBTQ people do.

When Jobs Disappear, Do People Delay Life or Cross Borders?

Youth Unemployment × Fertility × Migration — A Portfolio-Ready Data Pairing Project

A demographic update: thoughts on world population day 2025

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Bryan Alexander

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Overpopulation Through the Lens Of Different People

Overpopulation is the fact that one region has. Too many people for the amount of food, materials, and space available there. There are…

Malaysian rugby parents — a demographic iceberg

What makes scholarly boys run the risks they do to win a game of rugby?

Anime-Exclusive Genres Explained

First time or newly interested anime fans may find themselves at a loss when faced with some of the names of popular anime genres since…

How to identify the ideal customers for your online eCommerce business

Continuing with our discussion on how to start an online retail business, let us focus on an important aspect of an online business, i.e…

A Great Day To Be A White Male

By introducing a diverse cast into the media, many television shows have had outstanding ratings and reviews. But it is very rarely…

African governments should come of age and take charge of their development priorities

By Eunice Mueni

Botswana is already harnessing the demographic dividend, although it’s also consuming more than…

By Eliya Zulu, Bernard Onyango, Rose Oronje

Can evidence fix Africa’s governance challenges, or are we flogging a dead horse?

By Diana Warira

Why the media is critical to the success of the Demographic Dividend agenda in Africa

By Diana Warira