'Highly readable ... Everything we need to know on this subject' Financial Times'Fascinating' Geographical Magazine'A must read for anyone wanting to understand the forces shaping our world' Eliza Filby'A compelling argument for having more children' New StatesmanA population calamity is unfolding before our eyes. It started in parts of the developed world and is ...

‘Morland predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?) and looks back to how ebbs and flows of population have shaped history, such as the Soviet Union’s plummeting birth rate in the 1960s, which hastened the end of the Cold War.’ - The Daily Telegraph ‘The Best Books for Summer 2022’The great forces of population change – the balance of births, deaths and migrations – have made ...

L'umanità di domani è una carta geografica del futuro per orientarsi nel mondo che verrà attraverso la lente degli sviluppi demografici e dei flussi di popolazione che lo caratterizzeranno. Paul Morland ci mostra quanto la demografia sia la prospettiva migliore da cui osservare i mutamenti delle nostre società e delle nostre economie, e lo fa attraverso dieci numeri, dieci dati da cui partire per osservare il cambiamento. Se da un lato nei paesi dell'Africa occidentale la diminuzione della...

A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empiresThe rise and fall of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower; the ebb and flow of global challenges from Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Soviet Russia. These are the headlines of history, but they cannot be properly grasped without understanding the role that population has played.The Human ...

A population calamity is unfolding before our eyes. It started in parts of the developed world and is spreading to the four corners of the globe. There are just too few babies being born for humanity to replace itself.Leading demographer Paul Morland argues that the consequences of this promise to be calamitous. Labour shortages, pensions crises, ballooning debt: what is currently happening in South Korea - which faces population decline of more than 85% within just two generations...

Wie Demografie unsere Welt erklärtDemografische Übergänge, die einst mehrere Generationen Zeit brauchten, vollziehen sich heute in nur wenigen Jahrzehnten – und wir sind mittendrin! Bevölkerungen wachsen oder schrumpfen, werden jünger oder älter, explodieren, emigrieren oder formieren sich neu. Seit der Industrialisierung bewegen sich Bevölkerungstrends nicht mehr im Schneckentempo. Genau das macht die Demografie zu einer spannenden Wissenschaft, die uns ganz neue ...

Demography has always mattered in conflict, but with conflict increasingly of an inter-ethnic nature, with sharper demographic differences between ethnic groups and with the spread of democracy, numbers count in conflict now more than ever. This book argues for and develops a framework for demographic engineering which provides a fresh perspective for looking at political events in countries where ethnicity matters. It asks how policies have been framed and implemented to change the demogr...

‘Morland predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?) and looks back to how ebbs and flows of population have shaped history’ - The Daily Telegraph ‘The Best Books for Summer 2022’The great forces of population change – the balance of births, deaths and migrations – have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in r...

A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empiresThe rise and fall of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower; the ebb and flow of global challenges from Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Soviet Russia. These are the headlines of history, but they cannot be properly grasped without understanding the role that population has played.The Human ...

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