Category: Population
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Fear of a Bihari nation
I’ve fascinated by regions that border each other and have very different fertilities. For example, Saudi Arabia has a TFR of 2.2 and Yemen one of 4. Today it looks like Bihar has a fertility of around 3.0 and West Bengal 1.6. Bihar surpassed West Bengal in the late 1990’s, and is still more populous…
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The future of the three “Pakistans”
Over at Econlog Bryan Caplan bets that India’s fertility will be sup-replacement within 20 years. My first inclination was to think that this was a totally easy call for Caplan to make. After all, much of southern India, and the northwest, is al…
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The future of the three “Pakistans”
Over at Econlog Bryan Caplan bets that India’s fertility will be sup-replacement within 20 years. My first inclination was to think that this was a totally easy call for Caplan to make. After all, much of southern India, and the northwest, is al…
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Population control is Islamophobic and classist
First, let me state I’m not a proponent of either the “Birth Dearth” or “Overpopulation” positions. I think both stances lack nuance. But that’s not the point of my post. I get periodic news updates on my smart phone, and I saw this title which piqued my interest, Beckhams a ‘bad example’ for families. I’m…
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“India’s” population bomb isn’t rocket science
The New York Times has a piece up, Defusing India’s Population Time Bomb, which reiterates what I was trying to get at yesterday, India’s demographic problems are localized to particular regions, not the nation as a whole. First, let’s review the world’s population growth & fertility rates: Now let’s focus on a few nations: China’s…