This book explains how the risks of global aging can be contained with a combination of foresight and prudent public policy.

Population did not boom because people suddenly started breeding like rabbits, but rather because they finally stopped dying like flies: the "population explosion" was in reality a "health explosion," with improvements in longevity driving the entirety of this increase in human numbers.

I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.

Will the aging of the Third World have unanticipated spillover effects for the world economy? The answer is not yet clear--but it is none too early to begin asking the question.

Population projections from the United Nations suggest that many countries face a decline in population and an unprecedented "aging explosion."

One set of projections by the United Nations of current demographic trends suggests that the world's population may peak in the middle of the next century and then steadily decline.

Was the last century's "population explosion" driven by a reduction in mortality?

Sub-replacement fertility rates are becoming the global norm with the exception of the United States.