Future Population Growth, 2015–2100

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Aalok Ranjan Chaurasia
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Future Population ◽  
Future Population Growth

scholarly journals Weather-Related Hazards and Population Change

2016 ◽  
Vol 669 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fussell ◽  
Sara R. Curran ◽  
Matthew D. Dunbar ◽  
Michael A. Babb ◽  
Luanne Thompson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Population Change ◽  
Tropical Storms ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Declining Populations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Past Population ◽  
Future Population ◽  
Future Population Growth

Environmental determinists predict that people move away from places experiencing frequent weather hazards, yet some of these areas have rapidly growing populations. This analysis examines the relationship between weather events and population change in all U.S. counties that experienced hurricanes and tropical storms between 1980 and 2012. Our database allows for more generalizable conclusions by accounting for heterogeneity in current and past hurricane events and losses and past population trends. We find that hurricanes and tropical storms affect future population growth only in counties with growing, high-density populations, which are only 2 percent of all counties. In those counties, current year hurricane events and related losses suppress future population growth, although cumulative hurricane-related losses actually elevate population growth. Low-density counties and counties with stable or declining populations experience no effect of these weather events. Our analysis provides a methodologically informed explanation for contradictory findings in prior studies.

Demographics

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunnar Almgren ◽  
Ji Young Kang
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Population Change ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
Household Structure ◽  
Population Composition ◽  
Social Demography ◽  
Child Bearing ◽  
Distribution Of Income ◽  
Future Population

This entry provides a brief overview of the field of social demography, the components of population change, projections for future population growth, and recent transformations in population composition pertaining to age, race, and ethnicity. Trends that shape family household structure (for example, marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and nonmarital child bearing) are also considered, as are trends pertaining to the distribution of income, wealth, and poverty. Population trends given particular attention include the growth of class-based disparities in marriage and nonmarital child bearing, the contributions of immigration to population growth and diversity, and a disturbing increase over recent decades in the prevalence of poverty among children of immigrants.

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