Marking the birth of the 7 billionth person on earth, here are five myths challenging everything you think you know about the world's population.

A new UN report wrongly urges governments to curb supposed overpopulation problems.

The draft Programme of Action calls for a quadrupling of international aid money for population policies over the next six years. Governments will be wasting their time and our money.

Greens are good at pointing out potential problems and at pressuring government and industry to come up with solutions but when they are allowed to make policy, they usually mess it up.

On the crucial issue of understanding world population trends, the U.S. government, the United Nations, European bureaucrats, and Third World elites agree more than they disagree.

Demographics experts have failed to note the falling prices of natural resources and the health explosion that has led to a huge expansion of human capital.

Just what is "population policy"?

Demography plays a vital role in international relations.