Magazines

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,…...

June 12, 2023 | Magazines

Deforestation is presently eating up the world’s largest tropical carbon sink: the Congo Basin in west-central Africa. The region boasts the second largest tropical forest in the world, after the Amazon, and the largest intact forest landscape. It’s also a biodiversity hotspot—one out of every five species on Earth is…...

March 13, 2023 | Magazines

One of our Global Partners, which we’ve been working with for many years, addresses the human-wildlife challenges that exist at the edges of mountain gorilla rangeland in Uganda by improving the health and livelihoods of people and by protecting gorillas’ health, safety, and habitat. The Founder and CEO of Conservation…...

December 12, 2022 | Magazines

Thailand has made incredible progress in health and economic development since the 1970s, when Mechai Viravaidya (a.k.a. Mr. Condom) founded the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) and the Cabbages & Condoms chain of restaurants and hotels. This issue features a profile of Mr. Mechai and includes photos from Population…...

September 19, 2022 | Magazines

Mary Beth Weinberger, Population Connection board member and retired UN Population Division demographer, explains key findings from the new World Population Prospects 2022. Hannah Evans, Senior Analyst, discusses India’s projected position as world’s most populous country as of 2023 and explores work of Population Foundation India (PFI), a progressive NGO…...

June 20, 2022 | Magazines

An article about high fertility in Ghana and the Marie Stopes clinics in that country that meet people where they are with family planning education and services takes center stage in this issue. We also heard from Dara Purvis, a professor at Penn State Law and the former Vice Chair…...