World Population
Watch the human population grow.
Human Population Growth
Examines periods of exponential growth for the human population, the demographic
transition, and age structure diagrams.
Ethical Implications of Carrying Capacity, by Garrett Hardin (1977)
A classic essay defining and analyzing the concept of a carrying capacity.
Zero Population Growth
The nation's largest grassroots organization concerned with the impacts of
rapid population growth and wasteful consumption.
Population and Human Development
From the World Resources Institute. Information on age and gender
distributions in developing and industrialized nations, fertility rates and
female literacy, child mortality rates, daily calories per capita,
contraceptive use, and UN population projections.
Transformation of a population age distribution from a "pyramid" to a "vase"
The historical change in shape of an age distribution diagram as a culture
moves from an agricultural economic base to an industrial economic base.
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