Hacker News with Generative AI: Population Growth

What a World Growing Older Fast Means for Investing (bloomberg.com)
A growing number of money managers say it’s time to get portfolios ready for a population shift

Investing, Demographics, Population Growth, Financial Markets

7 points by toomuchtodo 20 days ago | 10 comments

California's population is no longer in decline (ktla.com)
Despite all the noise surrounding the “California exodus,” or mass migration out of the country’s most populous state, California grew in population in 2024 — although that growth wasn’t massive.

California, Population Growth, Demographics

12 points by madihaa 21 days ago | 4 comments

Peak population may be coming sooner than we think (ft.com)
Peak population may be coming sooner than we think

Demographics, Population Growth, Forecasting, Global Trends, Sustainability

29 points by maxilevi 68 days ago | 26 comments

Peak population may be coming sooner than we think (ft.com)
Peak population may be coming sooner than we think

Demographics, Population Growth, Predictions, Social Trends, Future

17 points by johntfella 85 days ago | 21 comments

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.

Demography, Population Growth, Social Commentary, Predictions

22 points by paulpauper 105 days ago | 65 comments

Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi scheme (theconversation.com)

Economics, Population Growth, Social Policy

49 points by pseudolus 159 days ago | 138 comments

Japanese population sees greatest fall amid record foreigner growth and numbers (asahi.com)