Questions tagged [population]
Questions related to the politics or policies surrounding the population of any given country or countries.
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Why is China worried about population decline?
There are (old?) news on the internet that China is worried about their population decline and they try to take active measures against it.
Colleges in China are now allowing students an entire week ...
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Are there any statistics on the distribution of world-wide population according to the height over Sea Level
Are there any statistics or publications on the distribution of word-wide population over the height over sea level of their residence?
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Have previous divisive SCOTUS rulings led to politically driven population shifts?
I've seen in news articles and places on this forum that the legislation enacted by states following the overturn of Roe, and striking down NY's gun permit requirement will lead to a greater migration ...
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To what extent can the Russian war in Ukraine be seen as an attempt to resolve a food crisis? [closed]
The history of Stalin's rule is notorious for the oppression of large sections of the Soviet peasantry, who were executed in their hundreds of thousands, as the expropriation of grain supplies to the ...
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Why is the total fertility rate so low in Puerto Rico?
The World Bank estimate of 2018 puts the Puerto Rico which is ranked separately from the U.S. in 199th place out of 185 sovereign states and 15 separately listed dependencies in total fertility rate (...
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What measures has Russia taken to combat the declining population problem in the past 15 years?
In 2006, Russian President Vladimir Putin directed his nation's parliament to develop a plan to revive the country's falling birthrate. In a speech to parliament on May 10, 2006, Putin called the ...
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Why doesn't Canada try to make its population grow up to the size of the USA? [closed]
This is my personal assessment: The USA has a moderately large population, and it is the world's largest economy because of that. As a result, the USA is a superpower.
No other countries in the West ...
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Has there been any country that successfully reversed a demographic decline in recent history?
I've seen many news items about how some countries are experiencing demographic decline and have implemented so-and-so policies to counteract the decline, such as:
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Japan
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Why do constitutions not incorporate a clause on population control?
A vast majority of modern states don't have a explicit constitutional clause on population control either (that I am aware of). It seems fair to surmise that it is the consensus of the majority of ...
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Does the Senate violate Reynolds v Sims?
There was a landmark US Supreme Court case in 1964 called Reynolds vs. Sims. It states that voting districts for state legislative chambers must have equal population in every state.
This raises the ...
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Has Russia considered accepting migrants that want to reach Europe?
This article argues that Russia, like many other countries, faces a population decline that must be tackled sooner or later:
The shrinking of Russia’s population overall, and especially the
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In the United States, can the distribution of congressional representatives be adjusted in response to dramatic population shifts?
In the United States, elections are run by state governments. Each state is allotted a certain number of congressional representatives based on its population. The population of each state is ...
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Do the leads of left-leaning candidates tend to grow as more votes are counted in US elections? [duplicate]
I have seen that Hillary Clinton's pop vote lead grew as more votes were counted. For the first example, in a video by Fox News, Clinton won the popular vote by 1.7 million votes, and she won by 2.9 ...
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How abnormal is Vermont's Democratic lean considering its rurality?
I am curious about the urban-rural divide. While looking into this, I found Vermont. This state is over 90% white and rural yet somehow generally votes Democratic and even houses an Independent ...
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Why is the population of post-Soviet states declining?
After the fall of the Soviet Union, many modern European states gain independence: the Baltic republics, Ukraine, Belarus.
But there is something common among nearly all of them: their populations ...
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Why did the population of Bhutan drop by 70% between 2007 and 2008?
I was looking at a list of countries and their population on Polish Wikipedia. (It provides data for multiple years which I couldn't find in English.)
I noticed one quirk: between 2007 and 2008, the ...
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How is the US population growing amidst restrictive immigration policies?
US population is showing a healthy growth and the share of immigrants among its population is only growing.
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-...
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How do you explain the change in population ratio of Germany vs. Switzerland since 1945?
When you read newspapers nowadays, you'd get the opinion that the economy in Germany is doing "great".
However, when I plot the population development in Germany vs. Switzerland, I get a very ...
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What happens to a country that runs out of population?
Latvia has been losing its population for the last 30 years, and continues to steadily lose around 2% of its population every year. And that is with steady economic growth and no wars or crises (like ...
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Why is Japan's urban development so polarized?
I have recently seen a documentary that showed how precious is the space in Japan's large cities (example).
This places the largest cities in Japan (Osaka, Tokyo) within the top cities when it comes ...
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How effective is the fight against skewed sex ratio in India?
Sex ratio is the ratio between female births and male births during a given period in a given area. The sex ratio "naturally" observed in most populations is between 900 and 1000 girls for ...
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What policies have been discussed or implemented to tackle Celibacy Syndrome in Japan [closed]
As we know that Japan is struggling with the problem of Celibacy Syndrome.
What strategic steps has Japan taken to end its fight with celibacy syndrome?
What policies have been implemented?
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What countries currently adopt anti-natalist policies?
What countries currently adopt anti-natalist policies?
As defined in the political issues section of Birth Control wiki:
Conversely, other countries have policies to reduce the birth rate
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If the US Presidential Election was based on popular votes, what strategies would be most effective to win? [closed]
There's been a lot of debate lately about popular vote vs. electoral college. One of the major arguments in favor of the electoral college is that it prevents a candidate from simply pandering to, and ...
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Why do all states have equal representation in the U.S. Senate, regardless of population?
For example, while California (population: 39,144,818) has two senators to represent them, Wyoming (population: 586,107) also has two senators to represent them. The population of California is more ...
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How can ISIS & other groups control large populations with limited resources?
According to the Wikipedia page regarding ISIS, the group probably has fewer than 50.000 fighters (CIA estimates 19.000+-25.000, ISIS claims 100.000, which is obviously an exaggeration, so about 50....
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Can people be "double counted" in different countries' census?
Our census bureau defines the national "population" as the number of people in the country on census day. This includes citizens, foreign students and workers, and immigrants who do not yet have ...
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Is there any developed country besides Singapore with policies regarding the racial composition of the population?
Sudhir Vadaketh says that Singapore has
THE most racist policy in the developed world: the need to maintain
our Chinese majority. (Source.)
It is true that the Singapore government has an ...
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Why hasn't Indian Govt still taken a step to slow down the rate of population growth in India?
India as of now is the second largest country by population just after China. Although we have seen that China, despite being a lot bigger than India in every terms has taken effective steps in order ...
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