population

A look at what the first statistical year book after Confederation said about Canada then, and in the future

Face it Canada, we’re getting old, though as the latest census figures show, not every part of the country is growing grey at the same pace

The bad news about our greying population in Statistics Canada’s revised labour force survey data

The Canadian model works, so let’s boost immigration and triple our population

By population? Possibly. By size of economy, it’s pretty much already there.

How GDP and population size are propelling the People’s Republic to the top of the podium

In Maharashtra, there are only 88 girls for every 100 boys

Marriage may not matter as much as it once did to young couples. But it matters a lot to society at large.

Mass extinctions, water shortages, dwindling oil reserves, grinding poverty. Can the Earth sustain every one of us?

In her book, Unnatural Selection, Mara Hvistendahl investigates the effects of sex selection of babies