Lyman Stone is the Director of Research of the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, and a PhD candidate at McGill University.
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India Wakes Up While Egypt Goes Down
All the fertility news from September 2026!
Time for the semi-regular-when-I-get-to-it fertility roundup!! Here we go! We’ve got some fun stuff in this one that amounts to a TL;DR of the godforsaken miscreants running most countries contin...
The Biblical Censuses Are Correct Demographic Records
They’ve been egregiously misunderstood and it’s time to Make Numbers Great Again
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Speculation: Longevity Threatens Democracy
It's hard to believe, but dictators used to just die sometimes!
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Some Recent Fertility News
Never gamble against Vietnam, India still can’t say the word, Korea and Japan pivoting?
Last spring I tried to do these regular fertility news roundups then I fell off the bandwagon for the Substack audience, but I still eked out the atten...
Should You Trust the “Total Maternity Rate”?
It does not estimate what many people seem to think it estimates
Stephen Shaw is a well-known researcher of low fertility, as well as a populizer of the issue. He has done excellent work on both fronts, and is a professional Friend Of The...
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Lyman Stone is the Director of Research of the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, and has a PhD in Sociology from McGill University
Centre for Family and Education Director. Institute for Family Studies Research Associate. All opinions are my personal views.
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