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- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
25 July 2023
Summary
The great forces of population change - the balance of births, deaths and migrations - have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in relative obscurity, which economies top the international league tables and which are at best also-rans.
The same forces that have shaped our past and present are shaping our future. Illustrating this through ten illuminating indicators, from the fertility rate in Singapore (one) to the m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529046014 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529046017 |
| Author: | Paul Morland |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 25 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 242g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 132mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Morland predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?) and looks back to how ebbs and flows of population have shaped history, such as the Soviet Union’s plummeting birth rate in the 1960s, which hastened the end of the Cold War. * The Daily Telegraph *
Compulsively readable. Regarding the cultural and political implications of enormous pending shifts in human population, Morland manages to remain admirably neutral; readers can draw their own conclusions. Will the future be better or worse? Only one thing is certain: it will be very, very different. – Lionel Shriver
Paul Morland provides the demographic key to understanding so much of recent history and contemporary society - from Chinese cities, to global ageing and the rise of Africa. With great authority and an eye for the vivid detail he opens a door that I was scarcely aware of, persuading me that demography really is the master social science. – David Goodhart
An accomplished whistle stop tour of world demographics. – Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
Paul Morland is emerging as the foremost chronicler of today’s global demographic revolution. Through ten striking numbers, Tomorrow’s People relates the breath-taking social changes produced by the spatially uneven transition from population explosion to decline. – Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics, Birkbeck, University of London
Paul Morland
Dr. Paul Morland is a Senior Member of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Educated at Oxford, he received his Ph.D. from the University of London. He is the author of The Human Tide - How Population Shaped the Modern World, which has been translated into nine languages, and he has contributed articles on demography to newspapers in the UK and beyond. A dual UK and German citizen, Paul Morland lives in London with his wife and has three adult children.
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