What Has Been Driving World Population Growth?

B Ravikumar and Amy Smaldone

On the Economy from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: The world’s population more than doubled from 1960 to 2021 despite the birth rate falling. Declining death rates in lower-income countries drove the growth.

Keywords: world population; birth rates; death rates; lower-income countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-10-26
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