demography

"To mark the birth of the seven billionth citizen of planet Earth in 2011, National Geographic magazine commissioned seven articles that explore the issues of demographics, food security, climate change, fertility trends, and managing biodiversity."--Provided by publisher.

"Unveil[s] exactly how people of color and progressive whites add up to a new majority, and what this means for U.S. politics and policy"--Dust jacket.

An overview of world population that describes its various aspects, such as fertility, migration, and global policy, and presents a chronology, biographical sketches of individuals involved in the issue, statistics and graphs, documents, a directory of organizations, and annotated lists of print and non-print resources.

Briefly disusses the growth and distribution of the world's population from the Ice Age to the 20th century.