(January 2008) Ethiopia and Nigeria are sub-Saharan Africa’s largest countries by far, with populations of 83 million and 144 million, respectively. They account for more than one-quarter of the continent’s 788 million people, and are integral to its demographic future.
Black African immigrants began arriving in the Washington, D.C.
(April 2008) The Middle East and North Africa includes some of the world’s fastest growing countries, and the region as a whole saw its population quadruple in the second part of the 20th century, from 104 million to 400 million.
(2007) In the South, Texas, Florida, and Georgia are poised to gain seats in the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2010 Census.
(December 2007) In October 2006, the U.S.
(2007) New flows of immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean are a growing component of the U.S. population.
(2007) With continuing political turmoil, emergency rule declared, and concerns about how free and fair January elections will be, Pakistan has been under the spotlight recently.
(2007) By 2030, the population of the Washington, DC metropolitan area will increase by more than 2 million, and the population age 65 and older will double.
(November 2007) India is both a highly rural country, with the large majority of its population living in villages, and home to some of the world’s largest metropolitan areas.
(2007) The share of baby-boomer men who divorced by age 40 fell from a high of 29.2 percent of those born from 1945 to 1949 to 25.4 percent of later baby boomers born between 1960 and 1964.