Canada was supposed to have 100 million people by the 1970s
A look at what the first statistical year book after Confederation said about Canada then, and in the future
population
What the census tells us about Canada’s aging population
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
Canada’s population is getting older faster than we thought
The bad news about our greying population in Statistics Canada’s revised labour force survey data
Why it’s time for Canada to grow up
The Canadian model works, so let’s boost immigration and triple our population
Could Alberta pass Quebec to become the second-largest province?
By population? Possibly. By size of economy, it’s pretty much already there.
CHART - Team China vs. Team USA: The great overtaking
How GDP and population size are propelling the People’s Republic to the top of the podium
Third child? Make it a girl.
In Maharashtra, there are only 88 girls for every 100 boys
You can’t mandate marriage, even if it’s good for society
Marriage may not matter as much as it once did to young couples. But it matters a lot to society at large.
A world of 10 billion
Mass extinctions, water shortages, dwindling oil reserves, grinding poverty. Can the Earth sustain every one of us?
The women shortage and why a surplus of men is bad for all of us
In her book, Unnatural Selection, Mara Hvistendahl investigates the effects of sex selection of babies