Where Europe’s populations are growing (yellow) and declining
03 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in population economics Tags: ageing society, demographic crisis, EU, Europe, Population demographics
About 101 billion people have lived & died
30 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics Tags: Population demographics
About 101 billion people have lived & died
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Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) October 17, 2015
Peak China
20 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, population economics Tags: China, offsetting behaviour, one child policy, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
The western environmental movement’s role in China’s one-child policy
19 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: China, cranks, doomsday profits, doomsday prophecies, one child policy
Who spends more than half their income on housing in the UK?
12 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in population economics, urban economics Tags: British economy, British politics, housing affordability
% young adults still living with their parents in Europe
06 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics
Russia has a serious shortage of men
05 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, population economics Tags: ageing society, alcoholism, Russia, sex-ratios
Chinese birth and death rates and the Chinese population since 1950
04 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: China, economics of fertility, one child policy, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge, unintended consequences
Chinese and Hong Kong fertility since the one child policy was adopted
01 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics, population economics Tags: China, economics of fertility, Hong Kong, one child policy, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge
Partnership status of young adults, USA, UK, Sweden, New Zealand, Italy, Germany the, France, Denmark, Canada and Australia
26 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics Tags: economics of fertility, family demographics, marriage and divorce, search and matching
They certainly don’t go much for cohabiting in Italy or indeed the USA among young adults. Cohabitation is pretty much the same everywhere else. Marriage is not so common in Sweden generally among young people.
Source: OECD Family Database – OECD.
Who is married with children in USA, UK, Canada, Germany and France?
25 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics Tags: economics of fertility, marriage and divorce, search and matching, single parents, soul parents
Source: OECD Family Database – OECD.
How common is marriage in two-parent households, selected OECD countries
24 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics
Living in sin is much more popular in some countries. The French and Scandinavians are really big on not bothering to marry but live together and raise children.
Source: OECD Family Database.
Data on the number of two-parent households who were married or not was not available for the USA, Australia or New Zealand, unfortunately.
Living arrangements of children, USA, UK, New Zealand, France, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Germany, Italy and Japan
24 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics
The percentage of sole parent households varies widely across the OECD member countries charted below including between the English-speaking countries.
Source: OECD Family Database.
Keep calm and carry on – the British gender pay gaps at the 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles
23 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics Tags: gender wage gap
Unlike New Zealand or the USA, there is been steady progress up and down the entire British labour market in closing the gender pay gap.
Source: OECD Employment Database.
Most of Canada lives near the border
15 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in population economics Tags: Canada, economics of borders, NAFTA
Half of Canada lives south of the red line, or 45.7 degrees north.
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Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) September 27, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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