BBCNEWS Newsday June 4, 2024 23:10:00
Well, i think any kind of population milestone, demographic milestone, whether it's reaching eight billion as we did last november or whether it's india taking over china, it does kind of, it makes people nervous. it leads to this kind of demographic anxiety, as we call it in the report. but what we're trying to point out is that often it's not the population numbers that are the issue. the issues are many other structural factors that we need to look at. so, in fact, it's not the fertility rates. there is no ideal population number, but population numbers do matter in the sense that we need t...