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The Nation, a hard left publication of secular bent, is no friend of faith, life, or family. Still, I was expecting to be more amused than outraged by the lead [...]

The birth rate in California is at its lowest ever, the state's department of finance reported in December, at 12.4 births a year for every 1,000 people. One suspected reason [...]

It is not hard to understand how most of us form the impression that overpopulation is one of the world's most pressing problems. Turn on your television and you see [...]

The healthcare system remains weak Provision of medical services in Tajikistan is well below average for a former Soviet republic. World Health Organisation (WHO) data suggest that Tajikistan's total spending [...]

Nutritional deficiencies continue According to a 2005 study by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), more than one-third of under-fives in Comoros are below their proper weight or height because of [...]

Given a total population of 32.15m (April 2005 estimate) and a land area of 9.09m sq km, Canada has a lower population density than virtually any other country in the [...]

High proportion of non-nationals in Austria According to official estimates, the total population in Austria was 8.17m in 2004, equivalent to 1.8% of the overall population of the EU25. The [...]

Demography and migration On January 1st 2005 Denmark's population was 5.4m, comprising approximately 2.73m women and 2.68m men. Since 1990 the population has grown by a modest 5.4% (0.4% per [...]

Population by age and gender, Nov 2002 --------------------------------------------- Age in years Male Female Total 0-4 63,279 59,478 122,757 5-9 73,816 69,368 143,184 10-14 82,533 77,806 160,339 15-19 84,902 80,520 165,422 [...]

A young and increasingly urban population The UN estimates that Iran's population stood at some 68.1m at mid-2001. The fertility rate, according to World Bank estimates, was below two births [...]

Population declines by almost 3m since independence The most striking evidence of Ukraine's post-independence collapse is the sharp fall in its population. The census taken in December 2001 showed a [...]

Preliminary results from the 2002 census put the population at 24.6m, about 1m greater than had previously been forecast. The average annual rate of increase between 1991 and 2000 is [...]

Efforts to raise the birth rate may not succeed IF GERMANS do not die out some time in the 22nd century, it will be thanks to such places as Laer, [...]

Italy's birth rate picks up THE Italian government is hoping that cash will stimulate breeding. This week, it began handing out a 'baby bounty' of euro1,000 ($1,200) to couples for [...]

Poland's population is close to 40m Poland has the largest population of any country in central and eastern Europe, and the third largest (after Russia and Ukraine) if the Commonwealth [...]

The population is ageing The most recent census, carried out in 2001, put the Portuguese population at 10.36m, 5.1% higher than the last census in 1991, and significantly higher than [...]

Modest rate of population growth In 2001 Austria had 8.13m inhabitants, 2.1% of the overall population of the EU. Of the total population in Austria, 8.8% were registered as non-nationals, [...]

Population growth has slowed The rate of population growth has been slowing in recent decades (according to national sources), from an average of 3.08% a year in the 1960s to [...]

An unprecedented demographic crisis According to preliminary results of the October 2002 census, Russia has a population of 145.29m--a decrease of around 2m since the previous census, carried out in [...]

Population growth is falling The rate of population growth has been slowing in recent decades (according to national sources), from an average of 3% a year in the 1960s to [...]

Health reforms are under way External humanitarian aid, combined with the government's poverty alleviation programme, ensured that the basic indicators of health improved in the 1990s. Between 1990 and 2001, [...]

Sparsely settled and urbanising Mongolia's population doubled between 1960 and 1990, and one-third of the population is currently under 15 years of age. Population density is low at 1.5 persons [...]

A NEW REPORT by Demographic Intelligence projects that U.S. births are on the rise after bottoming out in 2010 at 4.01 million births. The U.S. Fertility Forecast draws on an [...]

NEW YORK -- The baby care business is sputtering, reflecting both a declining birth rate and an economy that remains in the doldrums. Nonetheless, moms remain the priority consumer for [...]

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK population grew by 408,000 in 2008--the biggest increase for almost 50 years. The total number of people in the UK [...]