Birth Rates Rising in Some Low Birth-Rate Countries
(2009) "1.57 Shock" was a popular media phrase in Japan back in 1990 after the fertility rate (TFR) fell to its lowest value ever: 1.57 lifetime births per woman, recorded for 1989.1 This was even below the 1.58 children per woman reached during the inauspicious year of the Fire Horse—1966.
(2008) The U.S. population is aging: The ratio of elderly to the working-age population in the United States will roughly double over the next few decades, straining the finances of the U.S. Social Security system and other government programs.
(2003) Reaching age 100 has long fascinated society. The century mark holds an almost mystical importance as a seal of hardiness and good health — the sign of a life well-lived.
Population pyramids are one of demography's most useful graphics. And they can be easily prepared in Excel and PowerPoint. Here are some simple instructions and files to get you going.
(2000) The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was one of the principal achievements of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992.