📚 Population Growth

Books with population growth on their catalogue record, first published between 1798 and 2010, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject population growth in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 334 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Essay on the principle of population	Thomas Robert Malthus	1798	44
	The Population Bomb	Paul R. Ehrlich	1968	34
	Limits to Growth	Donella H. Meadows	1972	18
	Human fertility	Robert C. Cook	1951	9
	The Rational Optimist	Matt Ridley	2010	9
	First essay on population, 1798	Thomas Robert Malthus	1926	8
	The measurement of population growth	Robert René Kuczynski	1935	7
	Population and society	Dennis Hume Wrong	1961	7
	Broken earth	Steven W. Mosher	1983	7
	The law of population	Annie Wood Besant	1877	6
	Population growth and land use	Clark, Colin	1967	6
	Population politics	Virginia Abernethy	1993	6
	The twilight of parenthood	Enid Charles	1934	5
	The hungry planet	Georg Borgstrom	1965	5
	Population and history	Edward Anthony Wrigley	1969	5
	Population, resources, environment	Paul R. Ehrlich	1970	5
	The biology of population growth	Pearl, Raymond	1925	4
	World population growth and living standards	Kuan-I Chen	1960	4
	The population dilemma	American Assembly.	1963	4
	A primer of ecology	Nicholas J. Gotelli	1995	4
	The present position of state medicine in England	Arthur Ransome, MD	1877	3
	The Japanese population problem	Walter R. Crocker	1931	3
	'Living-space' and population problems	Jürgen Kuczynski	1939	3
	Cities in flood	Peter Self	1957	3
	Population growth and economic development in low-income countries	Ansley J. Coale	1958	3
	Population perspectives	Philip Morris Hauser	1960	3
	Population growth and social change in the Middle East	Joanne E. Holler	1963	3
	Sex and the population crisis	John Alexander Loraine	1970	3
	India's population problems	S. N. Agarwala	1972	3
	Resources and population	Alan Macfarlane	1976	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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