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* Released June, 2004 * Running time: 120 minutes * Description: This documentary discusses how countries such as, Africa, India and Japan are facing different problems related to their current and changing population demographics. It provides a number of good graphics (population pyramids) and statistics, but also relates these issues to individual, very personal, stores. The film discusses birth control and women's rights in India, how HIV/AIDS in Africa has resulted in tragic cases that change the role of extended Draft 78 families, and how modernization has caused dramatically decreased fertility rates in Japan. * PBS.org has a great interactive site dealing with this issue: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/ * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions Section: Population

Population Reference Bureau, 2007 World Population Data Sheet. [cited 13 February, 2009], p.7.

* Aired: August 2008 * Running time: 4:51 * Description: This short program is about how population in European countries is dropping dramatically and discusses some of the related problems. * Rating: Very good (Good as link during lecture) * 7-Revolutions Sections: Population

A pdf table of world population data

We love this article at KSU and use it each semester. Some use it as an introductory read to discuss the global challenges in general while others use it in GC 1 to talk more specifically about issues surrounding population growth. Well documented, thorough read that never fails to spark discussion.

Historic Estimates of World Population

* Filmed: February 2006 * Running time: 19.50 minutes * Description: This talk describes the changes that have occurred and are predicted to occur in wealth distribution, fertility rates, population growth, and health within and between countries. Hans Rosling displays statistics using extremely interesting and unique graphics of changing trends. He breaks down several myths relating to difference between economically less developed and more developed countries. * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions Section: Population, Economic Integration, Technology

* Released 1999 * Running time: 60 minutes * Produced by Berkeley Media and available through their website http://www.berkeleymedia.com/ * Educational discounts are available; be sure to ask. A review quoted on their site says: "This film manages, miraculously, not to fall into the simplistic trap of equating population growth with abstract numbers that count up doom and disaster. Rather, it reminds us that this is the most human of all subjects, and its future depends above all on the human lives of young women, who live in many different circumstances in many parts of the earth. It depicts these young women, appropriately, as looking ahead to lives very different from those of their mothers -- lives at a global turning point toward lower birth rates and population stabilization." -- Donella Meadows, Prof. of Environmental Studies, Dartmouth Univ.

State of the World Populations 2007: Unleashing the Potential for Urban Growth. [cited 28\nFebruary 2008]

Special Report: Global Youth Populations," Euromonitor International, November 21,\n2008

Summary: Global demographics in the twenty-first century will be defined by steep declines in fertility rates. Many countries will see their populations shrink and age. But relatively high fertility rates and immigration levels in the United States, however, may mean that it will emerge with a stronger hand.

This site represents the land area necessary if the population of the world were as dense as various cities.

This New York Times article describes the implications of achieving a global population of seven billion people and examines the possibilities for population growth and related issues into the future.

Four megatrends that will shape the world.

The new edition of The Economist is focused on Revolution One-- population.

Of All The People In All The World uses grains of rice to bring formally abstract population statistics to startling and powerful life. Each grain of rice represents one person, and piles of rice make up the populations being displayed.