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Demography
Nearly 30 would be "nones" — an amorphous group that spans from zealous atheists to the vaguely spiritual.
Migration statistics should be regarded with wariness as they are difficult to analyze properly and easily manipulated for political gain.
An extraordinary haberdasher obsessed with buttons, lace collars, and death pioneered modern statistical analysis during the Age of Reason.
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“In our current social and physical climate, there's a sense of fatalism, a fear that bringing someone new into the world might be a bad thing.”
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Is human overpopulation alarmist hype with disturbing consequences? Oxford data scientist Hannah Ritchie debunks the overpopulation myth.
Economics and religion help to explain the gap.
Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!
Is it better to be the oldest sibling, the youngest, or in the middle?
Many countries' histories are governed by the familiar demographic story of growth, industrialization, and decline. But not France.
The separation of pleasure from procreation may occur throughout the cosmos, providing an explanation for the Fermi Paradox.
The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally.
The average age of cannabis users is increasing. Weed may fall out of fashion before it becomes legal everywhere.
Changes in the world population are determined by two metrics: the number of babies born, and number of people dying.
Some Europeans really don't want to use the internet.
There is a strong case to be made that the China has moved too slowly to reverse the effects of its one-child policy.
Humanity is poised to pass the 8 billion milestone mid-November, but population growth is actually slowing down.
Many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too.
Catholic sisters outnumber priests and religious on every continent.
Society incorrectly blamed a "population bomb” for problems that had other causes. A wrong diagnosis produces ineffective solutions.