Deutsche Version
By Carl Haub
The World Population Dynamics Report 2002 offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of demographic changes worldwide. As neither an increase nor decrease in numbers alone poses the greatest challenge, the report focuses on the dynamics of population processes, including a society's unprecedented growth or aging, its rapid urbanisation or rising mortality rates due to HIV/AIDS.
Beyond the pace of change, it is the growing divergence in demographic developments that places additional demands on societies. Increasingly, trends in neighbouring countries and regions are diverging significantly or even following distinctly different patterns of growth or decline. This mandates increasingly complex coping strategies at regional, national and even local levels.
Print version of the report (pdf)
The live summit with subsequent Q&A will take place on 25 June from 3.00pm CEST (UTC+2)
The rise in international opposition to the right to sexual self-determination
The future of global migration
How falling fertility rates accelerate development
with Prof. Dr. Manuela Naldini, University of Turin
"Demographic Change is not on the Political Agenda"
- Faith, Power and Children - Are religious people with large offspring conquering the world?
- Small Successes - Even though birth rates dropped in Germany in 2008, Germans tend to have more children than before – especially in the eastern part of the country.
