(2003) With young people comprising a sizable proportion of Zimbabwe's population, government officials, health workers, and community leaders face the overwhelming task of meeting the reproductive health needs for this special group.
(2000) Fifty-three years after independence, India is still looking for a viable policy to control population growth. Although it was the first country to adopt a family planning program, in 1952, the country is still growing by 15.5 million people each year and, if this trend continues, India may overtake China in 2045 by reaching a population of 1.5 billion.
(2008) There has been increasing international news coverage of the excess of young boys in India resulting from the abortion of female fetuses.1
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(2018) Children who enter kindergarten after experiencing repeated household changes are more likely to display problem behaviors that inhibit learning and disrupt classrooms, Paula Fomby of the University of Michigan and Stefanie Mollborn of the University of Colorado show.
In 2008, the United Nations announced that 50 percent of the world's population now lives in urban areas, a milestone in demographic history.
(2002) The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)* is the most water-scarce region of the world. Home to 6.3 percent of the world's population, the region contains only 1.4 percent of the world's renewable fresh water.
(2016) In Egypt, harmful practices that violate girl's rights are hindering the country's development and ignoring the demographic significance of adolescent girls in the country.
(2012) Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), also referred to as chronic diseases, are the leading causes of death worldwide.