This article contributes to the general debate on the link between population growth and the environment by analyzing the impact of demographic factors on two air pollutants. At the same time, it also con- tributes to a more focused debate on how population size and other demographic factors should be taken into account in future projections of air pollutant emissions. It is relevant to the large and still growing body of literature on the so-called environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), which posits that environmental pollution is first increasing and then decreasing with rising per capita income levels (see for example Cole, Rayner & Bates, 1997; Grossman & Krueger, 1995). In.
