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How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future
By Ben J. Wattenberg
Posted: Thursday, September 9, 2004
Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future
Dimensions: 9'' x 6''
256 pages
Ivan R. Dee
Publication Date: October 2004
Hardcover
ISBN: 156663606X

Over the next few decades, world fertility levels are projected to continue a dramatic decline, leading to a deep reduction in previously expected levels of world population. In modern countries, fertility is already below the "replacement level" of 2.1 children per woman; the developing world will follow. The potential implications for commerce, pensions, the environment, and geopolitics are enormous. [Read more . . . ]

Ben J. Wattenberg, a senior fellow at AEI, is the moderator of the PBS program Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg and the author of ten previous books, including The Birth Dearth (1989).



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