Archive - Boom

How policy starts cultural chain reactions

May 6 •

March 2025

February 2025

Finland: helping the world's happiest people have families

New essay collection from Boom x SMF

Feb 20 •

January 2025

The UK's official population projections are too optimistic

A guest post from demographer Lyman Stone

Jan 31 •

Should we give babies the vote?

And births rise in South Korea

Published on The Works in Progress Newsletter • Jan 28

The relationship recession & the birth gap challenge

Key things we learnt & changed our minds on in 2024

Published on Neil’s Substack • Jan 13

On epidurals & the birth of my daughter

On Christmas Day 2024, I gave birth to my first child, a little girl weighing 2.8kg.

Jan 7 •

December 2024

All the single people

And how China will lose 51 million people in 10 years

Published on The Works in Progress Newsletter • Dec 18, 2024

China to lose 51 million people in 10 years

How is China responding to population decline?

Dec 5, 2024 •

November 2024

What are children for?

And how the UN’s birth rate forecasts keep getting it wrong

Published on The Works in Progress Newsletter • Nov 18, 2024

Scotland is the South Korea of the UK

Farewell to the Highlands

Nov 15, 2024 •

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