Population

President John Magufuli has suspended advertising by family planning organizations, raising outcry among human rights groups.

A metro only exists for those who can afford to commute.

Communities might roll out the red carpet for the foreign-born, but the more welcoming disposition doesn't do the trick.

The later the economic boom, the greater the municipal area.

Almost 50 years ago Dr. Paul Ehrlich published a book called The Population Bomb. Today, demographic hysteria concerns too few people.

California's population has skyrocketed over the past hundred years; unfortunately, water runoff has not.

In Europe, women are valued for their fertility, not productivity.

Shrinking communities deserve more health care, not less.

Population decline is a positive economic indicator.

Atlantic Canada is reportedly dying. I'll spend this week explaining why that isn't the case.

It's time to stop focusing on population growth as the cause of our environmental problems. It’s not the main culprit, and the women of the world are already doing all they can to slow it. They just need more support.

We're back to where we were before the 2008 recession, but there are now 12 million more people in the United States.

For over 30 years, Brazil has run one of the largest studies of a population since birth.

The international market for U.S. real estate looks nothing like the domestic market for U.S. real estate.

Matt Yglesias, despite Vox's commitment to deliver "crucial context alongside new information," passes along tired geographic stereotypes.

We continue to confuse population change with net domestic migration. Over the last 20 years, the U.S. has become increasingly rural even as many of its cities have grown.

Migration, not greater density, drives technological change.

Day two at the "Reinventing Older Communities: Bridging Growth & Opportunity" conference in Philadelphia.

Lessons from Pittsburgh and Cleveland.

Another example of how population growth is outdated as an important economic metric.

Of course a growing population indicates a growing demand for housing. But around knowledge hubs, which act as agents of gentrification, population can actually decrease while demand for quality changes.

Population growth isn't what it used to be, at least in developed countries.

Concerns about population growth and decline are artifacts of the 19th century and the industrial revolution. For them to make any sense today, we need to look at the numbers in a much different way.

Population change obscures more than it illuminates.