Welcome to the training manual for the set of lesson plans called “Making Population Real.” This is a trainer’s resource for demonstrating select student activities from five of the seven Making Population Real lesson plans.
(February 2007) Every year an estimated half million women die in childbirth, mainly from hemorrhage, infection, and complications of abortion. These deaths tend to occur in developing countries plagued by weak health systems and substandard quality of care, among many other deficits.
This is the third in a series of articles on the feminization of migration. Support for this series is provided by the Fred H.
(2007) Many developing countries possess abundant natural resources, but these resources can be threatened by population pressures and poverty, among other factors.
Recently published research concludes that today’s U.S.
(January 2007) Nigeria’s population reached 140 million, according to provisional results of the Nigerian population census released in December 2006.1
“The fact that it was a big number is a big deal,” says Carl Haub, senior demographer at the Population Reference Bureau.
(August 2006) The chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Kigoma Region, Tanzania, have come under increased pressure from four decades of high human population growth in the region and an associated increase in human activity and disease.
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(2006) Although mental health is a sensitive topic the world over, the prevalence of mental illness and its consequences can no longer be overlooked.
(April 2006) Populations in developing countries will be aging rapidly in the coming decades: The number of older persons (those age 65 or older) in less developed countries is expected to increase from 249 million to 690 million between 2000 and 2030.
(2006) Undernutrition remains a devastating problem in many developing countries—affecting over 815 million people and causing more than one-half of all child deaths.