The world's population is on the way to a 'zero' rate of growth. But technology means that we can support more people than ever before. The trouble with having half the population is that it will go through a period of decline and ages. We'll probably all be best off for the time being with modest population growth, he says.
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.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices