Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics The Setting Sun? According to official 1992 population projections by the Japanese government,1 the population of Japan, which is growing at an extremely slow rate of just one-third of one percent annually, will begin to decline in less than 20

Meet Fred Sai et al. Veteran Ghanaian researcher and family planning advocate Fred Sai and the Mainichi Shimbun Population Problems Research Council of Japan shared this year’s United Nations Population Award at a ceremony at UN headquarters in New York last month. They were chosen

European regional conference on population and development: European and American governments meeting at the European population and development conference in Geneva balked at committing themselves to a target for funding birth control programs in developing countries. They did agree, however, to increase spending for population

Chill winds of fear sweep the Netherlands as euthanasia unveils itself like a thief in the night. The debate on the issue of euthanasia is now going on in many countries including the United States, but only in Holland is active euthanasia, injecting sick people

In each of the past two years the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute has issued new publications titled Viral Signs, books that purport to document “the trends that are shaping our future.”1 Following in the footsteps of the famous Worldwatch State of the World series,2 now in

Dr. Seamus Grimes is a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Galway, Ireland. Introduction Although there is widespread concern throughout Europe during the current period of economic recession, with high levels of unemployment and the recent upsurge in refugee movements associated

International scientists disagree on population issues Scientists from Africa, Ireland and the Vatican refused to sign a joint statement prepared for an international meeting of scientists in New Delhi, India. The Declaration had been drafted by the Royal Society of London, the U.S. National Academy

Population Numbers Keep Dropping Amid the constant clamor from population propagandists who point to the world’s alleged “population explosion,” a curious fact has gone almost unnoticed: the estimated numbers of the planet’s future inhabitants have been steadily dropping. This fact, evident in recent editions of

Population and socio economic development There is a clear recognition of the difficulty experienced in establishing causative links between population growth, or certain demographic variables, and economic development. It is equally difficult to establish causative links between fertility and poverty. While it is argued by