For the U.S. workforce, workplaces, and consumer markets, the implications are far-ranging. Most immediately, and notwithstanding the growing role of AI in organizations, impending population decline ...

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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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

WALLACE STEGNER, a novelist, once called California “America…only more so”. To judge by population estimates released on May 2nd, the state is still America, but slightly less so. The population fell ...

3 percent of the world’s population live in a country where the fertility rate is not dropping. As fertility falls, populations shrink. As populations shrink, economies will sputter. Western countries ...