News from Population Matters.
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Menstruation, child marriage & fertility rates: the linkages
Globally, 66% of girls, on average, know nothing about menstruation until menarche – their first period. This injustice contributes highly to early school dropouts, child marriage, and childbearing.
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6 months and 35 million more people
6 months after 8 billion day, and we’ve added another 35 million to the world’s population. Here’s how PM has spent that 6 months.
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We cannot wait for solutions: Choice ambassador Nyombi Morris at the UN
PM Change Champion Nyombi Morris discusses his experience of attending the UN’s Commission for Population and Development session in New York.
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Sustainable population: the Earth4All approach
Earth4All’s recent People and Planet report is the latest attempt at modelling sustainable population projections through the 21st century. It caused a number of over-hyped newspaper headlines, but are its projections of a significant fall in population by 2100 plausible?
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Population matters at the Commission on Population & Development
PM attended and spoke at the UN’s annual meeting on population and development this week. Learn more.
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A planet of 8 billion and the future of humanity
The Journal of Population and Sustainability explores all aspects of the relationship between human numbers and environmental issues.
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Is population growth yesterday’s problem?
At Population Matters, we’re often told that population growth is no longer a going concern. But is that really the case?
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Conspiracy chaos: coronavirus, Bill Gates, the UN and population
Over recent years, a growing proportion of Population Matters’ website traffic has been driven by rather odd search terms including “Bill Gates depopulation”, “Agenda 2030 population control”, and “depopulation coronavirus…
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8 billion people in the news
We’re not sure the population issue has ever been quite so front-and-centre in the media as it was on 15 November this year, the day the 8 billionth human alive…
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Only connect: population & planet
Three critical events are taking place this month; the COP27 climate talks in Egypt, the International Conference on Family Planning in Thailand, and on Tuesday, 15 November – the symbolic…