Magazines

December 8, 2025 | Magazines

Educating young people about the impact of our numbers and consumption patterns helps them become more thoughtful future professionals, parents (if they choose to have children), consumers, and voters. Despite the importance of population literacy, however, our Population Education (PopEd) program — which turns 50 this year — is the…...

September 8, 2025 | Magazines

In a strange alliance, right wing traditionalists, tech professionals, and an abominable billionaire are pushing a pronatalist agenda on Americans, while cutting the very programs that help parents and children. They warn of an impending population collapse followed by human extinction, and insist that it’s women’s duty to avert this…...

June 16, 2025 | Magazines

The outlook for women and girls in western Nepal looks better than it once did, thanks in part to our Global Partner in that country: the Rural Women’s Development and Unity Center (RUWDUC). The work the 30-year-old organization is doing to change norms and traditions that harm women and girls…...

March 10, 2025 | Magazines

In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022, permanent sterilization consultations and procedures — especially for vasectomy — have increased to the point where patient waiting lists at urology clinics are often months long. A new study found that, as a group, young men…...

December 9, 2024 | Magazines

Reproductive health care programs that bring patient-centered family planning services to communities in rural and/or marginalized settings are crucial to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It’s only through locally led outreach efforts and quality clinical services patients trust that birth rates will voluntarily come down and population will approach stabilization.…...

September 9, 2024 | Magazines

This year is the 30th anniversary since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo — a watershed event whose Programme of Action set an agenda for achieving goals related to sexual and reproductive health, maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS, and much more. The document acknowledged the role population…...

June 10, 2024 | Magazines

Tanzania is East Africa’s largest and most populous country, and is one of eight countries projected to make up over half of the world’s population growth through 2050. Fertility is high, at nearly five births per woman, and the population is growing so quickly that it is set to double…...

March 11, 2024 | Magazines

Low fertility has prompted some governments in East Asia and Europe to implement pronatalist policies to encourage citizens to have more children. These schemes have minimal effect on fertility rates and can be offensive to women by treating them as little more than creators of future taxpayers, consumers, soldiers, and…...

December 11, 2023 | Magazines

Population projections and the assumptions demographers make in order to formulate them take center stage in this issue. Dr. Jane O’Sullivan, a researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia, gave an informative interview on the shortfalls of the most commonly cited projections and advocated on behalf of funding strong…...

September 11, 2023 | Magazines

Aging and slower population growth are inevitable as countries develop and women gain agency over their childbearing. There are myriad ways for economies to adjust to these shifting demographics, mainly through growth in productivity. Cover image: People hiking on Spencer Island, located within the Snohomish River Estuary, near Everett, Washington,…...