Government policymakers and planners around the world use population projections to gauge future demand for food, water, energy, and services, and to forecast future demographic characteristics.
(December 2001) For centuries, fertility was seen as central to the survival of Quebec’s distinct French-Canadian culture. The province’s political elite and its clergy successfully promoted relatively high fertility rates to overcome subordination to English-Canada.
(2001) In a 2001 report published by Amnesty International, a 27-year-old Ukrainian psychologist and social worker told of being trafficked to Israel.
Yemi Omoshola, a woman from Lagos State, in southwestern Nigeria, needed blood desperately. Her doctor’s attempts to induce delivery of her overdue baby had caused excessive bleeding.
(2001) The people of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have long played an integral, if sometimes volatile, role in the history of human civilization.
(Novembre 2001) Dans un rapport publié en 2001 par Amnesty International, une psychologue et assistante sociale ukrainienne de 27 ans raconte qu’elle a été vendue en Israël.
(October 2001) For the first time, more half of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by the end of this decade.
(October 2001) What will the future inhabitants of the world be like? How many will there be, and what kind of world will they live in?
In this Jason Bremner, associate vice president of International Programs at PRB, and Lori M. Hunter, professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, discussed the relationship between migration and the environment and highlighted innovative research taking place at population research centers.
People undeniably live longer today than they did in the past. But for behavioral, biological, and other reasons, not everyone benefits equally from the gains in life expectancy.