We seem fascinated by generations, using them to evoke shared experiences and to push us apart. Demography, the science of population change, defines a cohort as a group of people born at roughly the ...

Throughout the 3,00,000 years of human existence on earth, demographers estimate that approximately 108 billion people have lived so far. Remarkably, until 1804, the global population never exceeded 1 ...

The FT’s series on demographics — in particular the impact of the pandemic on mortality and fertility — is timely (“Dwindling rates of fertility test child strategies across the globe”, April 21). But ...