PRB Covers: World Population Day 2006 Raises Awareness of Youth Issues
This year's World Population Day—July 11—focuses on the needs and rights of the nearly 3 billion youth under age 25 around the world. Here is a list of PRB's most recent related articles on trends and issues facing the world’s young people, covering topics ranging from health threats faced by the world's youth to global abortion trends to racial and ethnic disparities in U.S. youth violence. (July 2006)

Youth in a Global World

 Youth in a Global World describes what it's like to grow up in today's world, with a special focus on four major experiences in the lives of young people: schooling, health, marriage, and childbearing. It highlights changes, cites trends, and suggests ways policies and programs could further improve the lives of today's youth. (June 2006)

China's Concern Over Population Aging and Health
China is not prepared to meet the health needs of its growing elderly population, but its government has recognized these challenges and is starting to develop a comprehensive response. However, while China's economy continues to grow rapidly, whether it will be able to allocate enough income to meet these rising health care costs remains as a major concern. (June 2006)

In the News: Speaking English in the United States
Nearly 50 million Americans spoke a language at home other than English in 2004—almost one-fifth of all U.S. residents age 5 or older. And U.S. immigrants are making the transition to English proficiency more quickly than at any time in the country’s history. (June 2006)

Europe's Population Aging Will Accelerate

 This data sheet provides 26 indicators—ranging from life expectancy at birth to average retirement ages to net migration totals—for each of the 25 countries of the European Union and 46 European countries in all. Europe will see its populations continue to age to unprecedented levels over the next 25 years, causing strains in health care, employment, and retirement. (June 2006)

What Japan Can Do To Push Its Longevity Envelope
A 1995 study showed that Japan had slipped to sixth place in the world regarding life expectancy for people who had reached age 80. Yet Japan has been slow to respond to upswings in the death rates from chronic diseases with appropriate public health measures. (May 2006)

In the News: U.S. Population Is Now One-Third Minority
The Population Reference Bureau frequently publishes articles and reports on trends and issues facing U.S. minority groups. Included is a list of PRB's most recent minority-related articles, which include topics such as growth rates of the U.S. Hispanic population, the social and economic isolation of African Americans, labor and unauthorized U.S. immigration, and minority groups in the U.S. military. (May 2006)

Report Finds Serious Disparities Among Children in North America
A new report from the Children in North America project finds that, while the continent's children have grown healthier and better educated over the last several decades, Mexico lags both Canada and the United States in providing education and health care to its children. (May 2006)

The Future of Human Life Expectancy: Have We Reached the Ceiling or Is the Sky the Limit?
This new policy brief by the Population Reference Bureau and the Behavioral and Social Research (BSR) Program of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) discusses the latest scholarly thinking on how best to project life expectancy, given trends such as the recent decline in disability rates and rise in childhood obesity. (May 2006)

Rural America Undergoing a Diversity of Demographic Change
Gains have been greatest in the fringes of metropolitan areas and in rural areas that are proximate to metropolitan areas, that include small cities, and that contain natural and recreational amenities. In contrast, gains have been smallest in the heavily populated core counties of large metropolitan areas and in remote and thinly populated rural areas. (May 2006)