Are demographic trends converging or fragmenting?
By Gérard-François Dumont
English
The most readily available demographic definitions or projections suggest that the world’s populations are converging towards a balance: birth and death rates are cancelling each other out. So are we witnessing a demographic globalization in which all nations’ natural dynamics are balancing out? Does this mean that a globalized demographic behaviour pattern, something we have never seen, is to be the future of humanity?