News

August 7, 2025

PI Bids Farewell to Stanback Fellows

The Population Institute’s Stanback Fellows have been working hard this summer, offering support to various organizational activities and working on their own independent projects. They surveyed the literature on the intersections of population and the environment, tracked mainstream media reporting on population trends, and supported outreach to new members of Congress, helping to advance the … Read More »

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Commentary

July 13, 2025

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, NEW YORK TIMES: The Arguments for More (or Fewer) People

To the Editor: Population trends play an important role in shaping our world, but Michael Geruso and Dean Spears’s fretting over “depopulation” is misplaced, given that the world’s population is projected to grow by at least two billion people this century. In many places around the world rapid population growth persists, posing problems for governance … Read More »

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