By Richard Ehrman

The Power of Numbers looks at what population changes will mean as numbers continue to rise in the developing world, across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and how the economic, political and military balance of power across the globe will be affected. Its sobering conclusion is that Britain and Europe are about to be hit by a demographic upheaval for which they are largely unprepared.

Richard Ehrman says: “We are likely to emerge form the credit crunch only to find we are at the beginning of a long demographic crunch.”