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.

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Numbers of Childless Women
August 3rd, 2011


The New York Post finds a fertility expert who thinks that 47 percent of women under 44 are childless. Statistics can be misleading.

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