The U.N.’s Imaginary Babies
August 4th, 2011




I’ve got a piece in the Wall Street Journal on the U.N.’s 2010 revision of their global population projections.

Short version: Suddenly the U.N. thinks fertility decline isn’t such a big deal and that most population contraction won’t happen. That’s because they assume the fertility trends of all nations will follow the pattern of Scandinavia.

  1. Galley Wife August 4, 2011 at 1:25 pm

    Secret for anyone who gets the “locked” version of the piece: Go to Google, type in “Wall Street Journal Jonathan Last UN” and it will bring you to the whole piece. If you go in through Google you get the “article free pass.”

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