Climate Change and Urban Adaptation in Developing Countries
2009) The world is facing inevitable effects of climate change at the same time that the population is increasingly concentrated in urban areas.
2009) The world is facing inevitable effects of climate change at the same time that the population is increasingly concentrated in urban areas.
(2008) In the latter half of the last century, the world's developed nations completed a long process of demographic transition.1
Race plays an important role in how college affects women’s marriage, fertility, and employment.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
In the United States, over 24 million people provide unpaid care for older adults—a 32% increase from a decade ago.
(2009) Family planning reduces infant and maternal mortality rates by allowing women to plan and space their pregnancies and avoid unintended pregnancies.
(2009) After decades of instability and civil conflict, Uganda has enjoyed relative stability, sustained economic growth, and great improvements in health over the last 20 years.
(2003) The United States adopts more children from abroad than any other country. The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents has increased sharply, and nearly doubled during the 1990s.
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
(2011) Together, China and India account for 37 percent of the world’s population. Both countries have conducted censuses over the past year, and when they report their census results, figures such as the widely accepted world population total are at risk of changing.