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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

This is the final pre-election issue of an AEIdeas series that focuses on elections and demographic voting patterns. After the election, we will look at what we learned from the 2022 results and move ...

C. Jessica Metcalf, a professor of ecology, evolutionary biology, and public affairs at Princeton, is a demographer who studies the spread of infectious diseases. Her work on health policy has special ...

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 ...

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 ...