: UK population

News from Population Matters.

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    Wild Summit 2025 Reflections

    Our CEO Amy Jankiewicz and Campaigns and Media Officer Madeleine Hewitt attended the first Wild Summit in Bristol. With over 1000 people gathered, it provided an insight into pressing discussions…

  • 2024 in review: Population Matters in the Media

    It’s been a busy year at Population Matters. Here we look at some of the articles and comment pieces featuring Population Matters in 2024.

  • Fact Check: “The global fertility crisis is worse than you think”

    The Spectator, a weekly British news magazine, has published an article falsely claiming that the global population will decline, when the UN’s latest projections predict we’re on track to grow to 10 billion. Campaigns and Media Officer Madeleine Hewitt responds with a detailed fact-check debunking the article’s claims.

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    Happy World Population Day… but you really don’t need to breed for Britain

    Population Matters’ CEO Amy Jankiewicz has written a comment piece for the Independent, which we have mirrored below. The article challenges pronatalism in the context of continued worldwide population growth and highlights some of the devastating impacts on the planet and its wildlife species.

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    False Alarm: Britain’s “Birth Rate Crisis”

    The Spectator, a weekly British news magazine, says Britain is in a birth rate crisis. Campaigns and Media Officer Madeleine Hewitt responds and explains why there is no need to panic over falling birth rates.

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    Putting the family in traditional family values 

    There has been a flurry of pronatal activity in the UK in recent weeks. Those involved are keen to restore “traditional family values” to the UK and, ultimately, raise the fertility rate.

  • Pronatalism in the UK: should we be worried?

    The recent NatCon convention attracted a lot of newspaper column inches and backbencher Miriam Cates made a bit of a splash with a speech focusing on the importance of having children. Is there anything to be wary about here? 

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    A Booming Success: Population Matters’ 2021 Conference

    On 8th October, Population Matters hosted Boom or Bust, our online and in-person conference addressing the intersection of population and economics, with a focus on how societies can flourish with…

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    UN report: World still largely hostile to girls

    Despite some progress over the past 25 years, girls under age 18 around the world continue to face unacceptable discrimination and violence driven by deeply entrenched gender inequality, according to…

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    70 is the new 65: a new way of looking at population ageing

    A new analysis by the UK Office for National Statistics shows that estimating the number of life years remaining, rather than counting the years lived, could be a better way…