February Archive

US Centenarians - Not as Common as Once Thought

Marcus Roberts | 08 February 2012

New research has overturned the assumption that mortality rates flatten out above the age of 80.

Auckland -1.5 million strong

Marcus Roberts | 07 February 2012

My home city has just hit 1.5 million people.

A New UN Report on our Impending Overpopulation

Marcus Roberts | 01 February 2012

Another UN report that seems heavy on headline grabbing but light on concrete proposals.

January Archive

Japanese Earthquakes -  Natural and Demographic

Marcus Roberts | 31 January 2012

The effect of last year's earthquake is exacerbating Japan's economic problems that demography is causing.

Bulgaria: Another Demographic Timebomb

Marcus Roberts | 27 January 2012

Bulgaria's future is looking bleak as its population is declining and growing older.

March for Life

Marcus Roberts | 25 January 2012

Some video and pictures of the annual massive March for Life in Washington DC.

Welcome to the Year of the Dragon!

Marcus Roberts | 24 January 2012

The Year of the Dragon is upon us with an expected upturn in the number of births.

Is Japan a glimpse of Europe’s future?

Marcus Roberts | 17 January 2012

Economists are looking to Japan for indicators about the future of Europe.

Increasing internet usage gives more and more power to the people of India and China

Shannon Buckley | 15 January 2012

India may have developed new technology which overcomes the problem of expense and allows hundreds of millions of Indians in remote rural areas to connect to the internet. It may also soon make Indians the biggest single internet user population in the world.

BRICs Throwing the Economic Bathwater out with the Babies

Marcus Roberts | 13 January 2012

The declining workforce in the BRIC countries is to have an impact on their economic growth.

How to compensate for lost fertility?

Shannon Roberts | 10 January 2012

Past Eugenics and sterilisation programs in the United States are coming back to bite them, with North Carolina currently the first State to address compensation for victims. According to the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation, at one time, 31 states in the U.S. had government-run eugenics programs. In North Carolina alone, close to 8,000 men, women, and children -- mostly poor, black, disabled and uneducated -- were forcibly sterilized from 1929 to 1974.

Ageing Europe’s future as a “cultural theme park”

Marcus Roberts | 09 January 2012

A new book points to the demographic implosion behind the eurozone crisis.

The Republican Race, Santorum and demography

Marcus Roberts | 06 January 2012

Rick Santorum could benefit from the changing Republican electorate in the race for the GOP nomination,

When do we get old?

Marcus Roberts | 03 January 2012

A new survey in the USA discusses when people think one is old.

December Archive

Too much Christmas pudding?

Shannon Buckley | 27 December 2011

Late December is traditionally the time when one starts to make resolutions to start eating healthily again after the food packed days that have come before. Or perhaps we can put it off for just a few more days – early January perhaps? In any case, according to the The Economist it is no longer just the Western world whose waistlines are widening.

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