Behind the Numbers: The PRB blog on population, health, and the environment
The PRB blog on population, health, and the environment
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Quick Takes: India’s “Demographic Dividend” and Incentives to Lower Birth Rates, China’s One-Child Policy, More Births in TaiwanTuesday, October 18th, 2011 Posted in Population Basics by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar Getting It Right. An Oct. 15 article in The Washington Post focuses on the concept of the demographic dividend, which has become quite popular among ... Read more..Year of the Tiger Over in TaiwanTuesday, August 2nd, 2011 Posted in Marriage/Family, Population Basics by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar Yes, more on the Taiwanese birth rate. (See my earlier blog post “Taiwan’s Birth Rate Lowest in Recorded History,” from Jan. 13, 2011.) The Year ... Read more..Taiwan’s Birth Rate Lowest Recorded in HistoryThursday, January 13th, 2011 Posted in Marriage/Family, Population Basics by Carl Haub, senior demographer [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="224" caption="Used under Creative Commons by Coolmitch"][/caption] Taiwan’s government has just announced that the country’s total fertility rate (or TFR, the average number of ... Read more.. |
