You may have heard the phrase ‘demographic cliff’ tossed around recently. The phrase inspires fear — a fall from a precipice, ...

Demographer Jennifer Sciubba joins WIRED to answer the internet's questions about population and demographics. What is demography? What perspective can demographics provide about populations and ...

Demography is a slow-moving train, and based on past and current trends, population science can somewhat predict the future.

Demographic dividend boosts economy as working-age population grows, birth rates fall. First dividend phase can extend over five decades, boosting labor force size. Second phase focuses on wealth ...

Economists seem to be everywhere; demographers, not so much. As Danny Dorling admits, when demographers like him are asked at parties what they do, sometimes it is easiest just to lie. Their ...

Inevitably, presidential campaigns focus on immediate domestic difficulties or foreign dangers. Momentous developments — inexorably gathering storms — are unnoticed, until social upheavals upend ...

Pizza and demographics aren’t normally thought of together, but I chanced upon a year-old Gawker blog post by Max Read which invites demographic analysis. Read, writing perhaps tongue-in-cheek, ...