- The UN projects a drop in the global population by 2100 as longer life expectancy and migration shape communities amid a collapse in fertility
By David Dodwell, South China Morning Post
Browse through the latest
UN World Population Prospects report and it is clear we are sliding at breakneck speed into an unrecognisable world. Shockingly, virtually no government is adequately preparing for it. And our region is set to be at the epicentre of change.
Over the past three years, as we obsessed over the
global polycrisis that embraces climate change, pandemics and global health threats, technological change, recession and geopolitical conflict, the accelerating demographic revolution has attracted little attention. This latest UN report provides a sobering corrective.
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