Sustainability Lecture: Sustainable Population Growth: understanding fertility intentions in sub-Saharan countries

Current UN projections suggest that maximum population size will reach 10 to 12 billion by the end of the 21st century. In this talk Sarah Harper, CBE, Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford, explored the contribution of both falling fertility and falling mortality rates to this increase. The gap between achieved fertility and fertility ideals is still notably higher in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) than elsewhere, relating to both under- and overachievement of fertility ideals.

The lecture is the keynote lecture of the Centre for Healthy Aging Retreat 2018 and is co-hosted by Sustainability Science Centre and Centre for Healthy Aging. Chairs are Professor Katherine Richardson and Professor Lene Juel Rasmussen.The lecture took place on 18 December 2018.