So the size of the population matters, either directly or indirectly, for it serves as a denominator in the vast majority of indicators by which progress on the goals in the MDG framework are measured.But trying to look good on economic development may not be the only reason for the tussle over numbers.
Simon Ross Chief executive, Population Matters.
Roger Martin is chair of the charity Population Matters.
"Population dynamics are not destiny," the UNFPA's population matters report says.
In 2014, after the death of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, the burgeoning Black Lives Matter movement helped make the long-festering problem of police violence against black Americans, already highly visible to a part of the population, an urgent matter for many who hadn't been forced to pay attention before.
The HCSP considers that the enforcement or not of the policy of mandatory vaccinations for the general population is a matter for society to determine, and one deserving of a debate, to be organized by the authorities".
The relevance of DISC1 to mental illness in the wider population remains a matter for fierce debate (Porteous et al., 2014; Sullivan, 2013), but functional studies have demonstrated that DISC1 has important roles in embryonic and adult neurogenesis (Chandran et al., 2014; Duan et al., 2007; Mao et al., 2009; Namba and Kaibuchi, 2010).
2007; Kuparinen and Merilä 2007; Law 2007) and if so, whether these changes matter for population dynamics and hence management (Hutchings and Fraser 2008; Andersen and Brander 2009; Kuparinen and Hutchings 2012; Laugen et al. 2014; Marty et al. 2015).
Whether the high internal consistency observed in this study would be replicated in other populations is therefore a matter for speculation that only future research could illuminate.
The extent to which findings from one cultural unit can be generalized to other populations is still a matter for debate.
