There's a correlation, in east asia, as elsewhere, between high incomen and low fertility. No part of the world has been more historically overcrowded full of people than china and other parts of southeast asia. In these society they were living at the edge of malthusian constraint for much of history. Infanticide was very common in china, in the ten as, late as the twenties. And you just have to look at the casualties and serio verses versus ucrae, the numbers are pretty disproportionate.Andand that goes out osa lot longer, of course.
Does the world have too many people – or not enough? That’s one of the big questions that demographer Paul Morland seeks to answer in his new book, Tomorrow’s People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers. Demography is the study of groups of people and how they behave, drawing from adjacent fields such as anthropology, sociology, history and economics. For this discussion focusing on political demography, Paul is joined in conversation by our host, Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College in London.
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