(2011) Increasing disaster threats not only reflect the onset of events such as earthquakes or floods, but also the changing demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the population.
Mortality remains one of the major outcomes related to natural disasters, and a recent study on which types of disasters are the deadliest has yielded interesting results.
(2010) Tanzania is one of the world’s poorest countries, with a 2008 annual per capita income of just $1,263, and nearly 90 percent of the population living on less than $1.25 per day.
(December 2010) A new report from the international organization UNAIDS has good news about progress in fighting the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Although the number of people living with HIV remains high—33.
(2010) will mark the sixth anniversary of the earthquake that spawned a tsunami on the coastlines of countries bordering the Indian Ocean.
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(2010) The Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea, one of the few remaining Communist countries, has demographic similarities and disparities with wealthier, democratic South Korea.
(December 2010) Ask experts how poverty is measured, and you will get a variety of responses.
(2010) U.S.-born Latinos and foreign-born Latinos face widely different social and economic experiences in the United States.
(2010) Latinos are increasingly shaping the demographic makeup of the United States.
(December 2010) The latest statistics confirm that U.S.