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In the Central African Republic, researchers found an astronomical death rate. Could a major emergency be invisible?

China’s birthrate has slumped and women in most areas of the world are having fewer children. How will falling populations shape humanity’s future?

Climate change may be the existential threat, but underlying this is, of course, population size. And this is a problem that never seems to go away. There are of course two ways, broadly speaking, to limit population growth aside from draconian policies governing reproduction (such as China's One Child policy). One is sometimes called the demographic transition. This is when a combination of factors including so-called modernization which may involve increase quality of health care in combination with increased social equality lead to lower birth rates.

Rapid population growth is about to hit the countries whose economies and climates are least equipped to handle it.

The World Health Organization may no longer consider Covid-19 a global health emergency, but the virus is not going anywhere.