Remember “The Population Explosion”? That 1990 book terrified ... Birth rates were high almost everywhere during the first half of the 20th century, but began to decline unevenly in the ...

(See Cover) From the doorway of a tumble-down Singapore tenement one morning last week, the wife of a Chinese stevedore watched her five naked children scrambling in the teeming street and prayed ...

The world’s population quadrupled in the 20th century due to high fertility rates ... where its one-child policy sought to halt a population explosion, the fertility rate now stands at 1.16 ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to researcher Samuel Bazzi about the lasting cultural and political impact of the northward movement of white Southerners in the early 20th century. In the early part of ...

Between the hot war in Europe and a brewing cold one between America and China, today’s world has a very 20th ... global population swelled to 7bn. Had the denizens of the 19th century known ...

Russia's economy has a dire demographic problem on its hands, and the nation could see its population slashed in half by the ...

In 1950, Africa’s urban population was 27mn people, according to the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation, less than a 20th of the 570mn who live in cities now. Cities are ...