Saturday, November 2, 2013

Demographics Are Destiny

Max Fisher, writing for The Washington Post, has an excellent article summarizing the findings of the United Nations Population Fund report. The map accompanying the article is a particularly useful way to visualize this data.

Why should you be interested? Countries with shrinking populations are endangered, as are those with rapidly growing populations. Fisher notes:
While the futures of nations are guided by much more than population trends, these demographic forces can play an awfully significant role.
As regular readers must know, COTTonLINE agrees.