TY - BOOK AU - EBERSTADT Nicholas TI - The human population unbound PY - 2014/// KW - DEMOGRAPHICS KW - POPULATION GROWTH N2 - The population of the world quadrupled between 1900 and 2000, a rise primarily due to improved health and nutrition. Over the same period birth rates have declined dramatically so that now some 80 countries, which between them contain about half the human population, already have birth rates below replacement rates. The article considers whether these trends will continue and what implications there might be if they do ER -