Hacker News with Generative AI: Demography

The Depopulation Bomb Isn't Ticking, It's Overblown (americandreaming.substack.com)
In the 1960s and 70s, as the global population was growing by leaps and bounds, prominent intellectuals, institutions, and political leaders, from the United Nations, to the Club of Rome, to President Richard Nixon, warned about the looming crisis of overpopulation. Today, with birth rates falling around the world, a growing number of thought leaders foretell the precise opposite.
Demographer's work debunking regions of exceptional lifespan wins Ig Nobel Prize (ucl.ac.uk)
A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the data about the world’s oldest people and patterns of extreme longevity.