The notion that global population witnessed a significant boom in the proportion of young people after World War II. There are several positive sociatal indictations that attributed to the increasing population numbers, including decreased childhood mortality and other improved living conditions. At the world level, the population in 1950 was relatively young, having 34% of its members under age 15 and barely 8% aged 60 or over. This was despite the fertility decline of the Great Depression and the massive loss of young lives in World War II. Between 1950 and 1975, as mortality decline accelerated, particularly in the less developed regions, both the proportion under age 15 and that aged 60 or over increased, to reach 37% and about 9% respectively. Overall, therefore, the population of the world became slightly younger from 1950 to 1975. So the world remained in demographic balance, and major demographic changes did not take place until after 1975, after population control and feminism had begun to take firm hold in most of the world. And now population control has lead to the specter of rapid population aging and attendant social and economic decline as fewer and fewer workers attempt to support more and more elderly, first domestically within respective nations, then globally. The United States should insist on population control as the price of food aid, using all necessary diplomatic and economic pressures on governments and religious groups impeding the solution of the population problem. We know that the policy has been implemented. Abortion has been legalised in most countries. Millions of men and many more women have been sterilised. In China a one-child policy is accompanied by forcible abortion and sterilisation. Disobedience can result in punitive taxation or having your house burnt down.