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.