(2010) This year's World Health Day (April 7) focuses on the importance of urban health. Urbanization is occurring so rapidly in some parts of the world that cities are not able to keep up with increased demand for environmental, health, and educational services, not to mention the employment, housing, and transportation needs of a population that may double in size in less than 25 years.
(2011) For more than 20 years, since the first data collection in Sudan in 1989, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) team at Macro International has been tracking the prevalence of female genital cutting (FGC), also known as female genital mutilation and female circumcision.
(2020) Census operations are changing in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. Census Bureau announced on June 18, 2020, that it is reaching out to colleges and universities with significant off-campus student populations to help ensure they are counted in the right place in the 2020 Census.
(2008) Opposition to Kenya's recent election resulted in days of deadly riots. Kenya's demographic trends provide some background to the current situation, revealing both advances and continuing challenges.
(2015) Rwanda today has been hailed as one of the few countries on a fast track to reducing child and maternal mortality--thus meeting two of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals in 2015.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
Cognitive impairment and happiness are not mutually exclusive.
Project: Supporting Population Evidence and Champions in Africa (SPEC)
Ethiopia, with a current population of about 100 million, has achieved gains in several major health indicators.
