My first year on earth culminated in the Summer of Love. My 55th, and most recent year ended in the Summer of Demography. Does the shift in focus - from free love to population statistics - that the ...

Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. James Carville won the Presidency for Bill Clinton in 1992 with a sign in the campaign’s headquarters saying “The ...

As time passes, the make-up of society changes. This is true in almost every aspect of modern life, including the workplace. As people change, the way human resources departments manage and develop ...

The past two decades has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of the health and well-being of the older population. The workshop looked at these recent trends and set the stage for the next ...

"The Global Baby Bust," by Phillip Longman (May/June 2004), offers a new version of an old fear: the threat of population decline, which has emerged periodically throughout the past century as a major ...

WALLACE STEGNER, a novelist, once called California “America…only more so”. To judge by population estimates released on May 2nd, the state is still America, but slightly less so. The population fell ...

Over time, the population of Israel has increased to just over two million in 1960, about four million in 1980, nearly six and a half million at the turn of the current century. On November 29, 1947, ...

That demographics has a bearing on world affairs, the global configuration of power, and even the conduct of international relations may seem entirely self-evident. We hardly need demographers to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is professor of globalisation and development at Oxford university and the author of ‘Rescue: From ...