The United States is in the midst of a major realignment of its population as the baby-boom generation ages into retirement and a smaller, strikingly different younger generation prepares to take over.
Twenty-five years ago, statistics for the European countries listed on PRB’s World Population Data Sheet garnered little notice.
This e-newsletter is the first in a series funded by the University of Michigan Demography Center.
(February 2007) Although many governments have passed laws against female genital cutting, the practice is still widespread in many countries. More than seven in 10 women have undergone the procedure in Mauritania, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Northern Sudan, Eritrea, Mali, Egypt, and Guinea.
(2007) This is part of a series of PRB articles about the science and engineering (S&E) workforce in the United States, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
(2007) The U.S.
This is the second in a series of articles on the feminization of migration. The first article was The Feminization of Migration.
This is the first in a series of articles on the feminization of migration. Support for this series is provided by the Fred H.
(2006) Two important demographic trends have reshaped the typical person’s life dramatically over the past century: Increasing longevity and the shrinking number of children per family.
(2006) As the population of the United States grew from 200 million to 300 million from 1967 to 2006, some fast-growing major metropolitan areas scored big time in the major league sports arena.