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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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"Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A provocative description of the power of population change to create the conditions for societal transformation. As the world nears 8 billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the most aged societies in human history. At the same time, the world's poorest and least powerful countries are suffocating under an imbalance of population and resources. In 8 Billion and Counting, political demographer...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio / Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A bold case for massive population growth in the name of national greatness--from Vox co-founder and host of "The Weeds" podcast Matt Yglesias. America is in decline. Fewer children are born each year due to financial pressure. Thousands flee our iconic cities with their housing shortages and broken infrastructure. While we tie ourselves into knots trying to stop the flow of immigrants, our exhausted economy deflates the heartland's already shrinking...
7) Population projections of the United States, by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin: 1993 to 2050
Author
Publisher
U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
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