There was a moment when it looked like very high levels of development might fuel a fertility rebound, but that has passed. Higher development brings persistently very low fertility - in the cross section and the trends among high-development countries. familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/10/12/t...
“Neo-Malthusians are adamant that the escape from hunger can’t last for ever…What if all of this is Malthus’s fault? In the early 19thC the quest to turn the world into a permanent field displaced Fenland commoners & Bengali peasants, who then needed to be fed, which justified more enclosures”
In the guise of natural theology, Malthusian political economy soon became the common sense of a middle class brought up...
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“variance in reproductive success between patrilineal groups, combined with lineal fission (the splitting of a group into two new groups of patrilineally related individuals), can lead to a substantial reduction in the male effective population size without resorting to the violence hypothesis”
Prior work has identified a male-only effective population size bottleneck 3-5000 years ago. While violent competition has been proposed as a cause, the authors here show that a segmentary patrilineal...
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Campop blog #16: Having a child before marriage was rare in historic Britain, but sex before marriage was not. Today’s blog explains who was having sex before marriage, who ended up as unmarried mothers, and how they were viewed @camunicampop.bsky.socialwww.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/10...
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Campop blog #14: How dangerous was childbirth in historic Britain? Considerably higher than today, but never the most common cause of mortality among adult women @camunicampop.bsky.social#demography#skystorianswww.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/09...
Key findings of newly released 2024 World Population Data Sheet: - current global population of 8+ billion projected to reach ~9.6 billion by 2050 - 10% of the world’s population is aged 65+, while 25% are <15 - global total fertility rate is 2.2 - 63% of married women ages 15-49 use family planning
Highlights From the 2024 World Population Data Sheet