News and Articles

Here are some recent news items and articles about population around the world.

Why the world needs fewer babies A study by Florence Blondel for Population Matters, 2024
No more a myth, the country of 400 million people. A 2024 article in Pakistan Today.
Family planning in Mexico – success against the odds From the Overpopulation project, 2024.
Achieving a demographic dividend in Tanzania for economic growth. The Citizen, Tanzania, 2024
Unemployment, insecurity and inequality: talking population in Nigeria Population Matters, 2024
Why China got population control wrong; India got it right. From Aljazeera, May 2023.
A future with fewer people offers increased opportunity and a healthier environment. By Stephanie Feldstein, Scientific America, May 2023.
Saying Out Loud What Others Won’t Even Whisper About Climate Change by Kirsten Stade , conservation biologist, Newsweek, June 2023.
Egypt to launch incentive program for families with two children or less Ahram online, March 2023
World ‘population bomb’ may never go off as feared, finds study. Guardian, March 2023 together with a critique of the study's over optimism by the Overpopulation Project.
Thailand's success story – Family planning with creativity and humor. From the Overpopulation Project, November 2019

Some articles about the difficulties of talking about population

Issues That Block Dialogue about Population Growth by Haydn Washington and Helen Kopnina, Church and State, December 2022
History was rewritten to delegitimize population concerns: we need to reassert the truth From the Overpopulation Project, June 2022
How to Bring Anti-racism Into the Population Conversation, from the Center for Biological Diversity
QCOP’s response to Greenpeace on Population. Population activists have long been frustrated at the refusal by many well intentioned NGO’s and charities to include population as part of the picture. Here is Greenpeace's explanation of why they never mention the population issue and then see a point by point response from QCOP.