How Malawi fed its own people, by Jeffrey Sachs
New York Times - US
A dozen years ago, at the start of the new millennium, Malawi’s extreme suffering was pretty much ignored by the world. AIDS, malaria, TB, hunger, extreme poverty and one of the world’s lowest life expectancies (46 years in the period 1995-2000, according to the U.N. Population Division) wracked the land.,…(19 April 2012)

Talking Their Way Out of a Population Crisis
New York Times - USA
The world’s seven billionth person is about to be born, according to the United Nations Population Division. Before this century ends, there could well be 10 billion of us, a billion more than previously expected. Nearly all of these extra billion people will be born in Africa, where women in some countries bear seven children each on average, and only 1 in 10 uses contraception. With mortality rates from disease falling, the population of some countries could increase eightfold in the next century.,…(22 October 2011)

Demographic tectonics
New York Times - US
Slow but steady contraction in the north, vigorous and sustained expansion in Africa; seven billion of us by October this year, eight billion sometime around 2025. The latest United Nations population figures provide a dramatic glimpse of how the demographic map of the planet is being reshaped. For the latest revision of its biennial “World Population Prospects,” the U.N. Population Division has extended its forecasts by 50 years, to 2100. Long-term forecasts must be taken with a grain of salt — they “have no operational role,” as the French demographer Hervé Le Bras has written; they just help “staging and exaggerating today’s fears.” ,…(25 May 2011)

Coming to a Planet Near You: 3 Billion More Mouths to Feed
New York Times - USA
In an article in Wednesday’s paper, we conveyed the highlights of a new report from the United Nations population division projecting that the global population will keep growing throughout this century and eventually pass 10 billion. (...) The United Nations population estimates are fed into an array of computer models, in institutes around the world, that try to project future economic and environmental trajectories. Expect a flurry of updates in coming months on projections for climate change, land use, water availability and many other issues as the consequences of these revisions work their way through the world of scientific prognostication. ,…(4 May 2011)

U.N. Forecasts 10.1 Billion People by Century’s End
New York Times - USA
The projections were made by the United Nations population division, which has a track record of fairly accurate forecasts. In the new report, the division raised its forecast for the year 2050, estimating that the world would most likely have 9.3 billion people then, an increase of 156 million over the previous estimate for that year, published in 2008.,…(3 May 2011)

Child Mortality Rate Declines Globally
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
... according to the new figures, which stem from an analysis of household surveys and other data by Unicef, the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the United Nations population division.
10 September 2009)

UN sees falling Middle East fertility rates
New York Times - New York, US
Hania Zlotnik, director of the Population Division at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said the shift suggests that education and access to family planning can play a far greater role than expected in reducing population growth, even in conservative Muslim states...(3 April 2009)

UN: Young and Old Boom on the Road to 9 Billion
New York Times - United States
The United Nations Population Division has updated its population forecasts through 2050, and concludes that, despite a longstanding global decline in ...(11 March 2009)

Despite Tobacco’s Perils, Kremlin Yields to Smokers
New York Times - United States
Those figures are feeding fears about what will happen to the Russian economy in the coming years if, as the United Nations Population Division suggests, ... (7 September 2008)