Hacker News with Generative AI: Population

Providing decent living for 8B people requires only 30% of current resources use (sciencedirect.com)
Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels of GDP per capita that currently characterise high-income countries.

Sustainability, Economics, Development, Population

12 points by lr0 21 days ago | 10 comments

US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023 (cnn.com)

Demographics, Fertility, USA, Population

40 points by paulpauper 63 days ago | 127 comments

The Low Fertility Fallacy: Why Panic About Birthrates Is Overblown (foreignaffairs.com)
Many politicians and pundits around the world have raised the alarm in recent years about declining fertility rates.

Demographics, Population, Social Issues, Economics

8 points by jnord 72 days ago | 5 comments

We Can Terraform the American West (wordpress.com)
We’re missing 300 million Americans. We’re missing 30 global cities west of 100 degrees longitude. We should do something about it!

Urban Planning, Geography, Climate Change, Population

246 points by jasondavies 84 days ago | 316 comments

Two new books on John Calhoun and his rodent experiments (newyorker.com)
As the world population approached four billion in the nineteen-sixties, fears of overcrowding and urban decay were rampant.

Science, Population, History, Sociology

109 points by mitchbob 110 days ago | 59 comments

Walt Disney Was Right; Our Cities' Problems Are Our Biggest Problems (population.fyi)
"I don't believe there is a challenge anywhere in the world that's more important to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities" - Walt Disney

Urban Planning, Cities, Population, Society, Quotes

11 points by daveland 121 days ago | 2 comments

China raises retirement age for first time since 1950s (bbc.com)
China will "gradually raise" its retirement age for the first time since the 1950s, as the country confronts an ageing population and a dwindling pension budget.

China, Retirement, Population, Economics, Social Policy

37 points by haunter 127 days ago | 6 comments

the US should place a value of $1.17M per additional birth (model-thinking.com)

Economics, Population, Social Policy

22 points by delichon 135 days ago | 69 comments

China will have nearly twice the pets than young children by 2030 (cnbc.com)

China, Pets, Demographics, Population

6 points by donsupreme 163 days ago | 0 comments

Britain is running out of babies (edwest.co.uk)

Demographics, United Kingdom, Population

26 points by jseliger 177 days ago | 36 comments

China to raise retirement age as population gets older (bbc.com)