Sex Ratio at Birth Begins to Improve in India
(2008) There has been increasing international news coverage of the excess of young boys in India resulting from the abortion of female fetuses.1
(2008) There has been increasing international news coverage of the excess of young boys in India resulting from the abortion of female fetuses.1
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.
(2010) Disability in older Americans affects the entire population of the United States because of its impact on the level of health care spending, especially spending on long-term care.
(2002) Wedged between the world's two population billionaires, China and India, Nepal is struggling with its own population pressures.
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
(2011) In which country do 72 percent of women marry before age 18? Worldwide, what percent of girls complete primary school? What is the average number of lifetime births per woman in Niger?
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
PACE’s Youth Multimedia Campaigns training program equips youth advocates with the skills to create innovative digital campaigns, tell compelling population health stories, and build movements for policy change within their countries.
Big data has opened a new world for demographers and public health scientists to explore. But is analyzing big data practical and affordable?
(2013) The United Nations Population Division has just released its comprehensive estimates and projections, World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision. The results show a larger global population size in 2050, 9.6 billion, up from the 9.3 billion that the UN projected in its 2010 Revision. A major reason for the higher projection is higher fertility (birth rates) in some countries than previously estimated, particularly in Africa. Much of that information comes from recent demographic surveys.
(2007) Will India be the first—possibly the only—country ever to have 2 billion people? The Population Reference Bureau tackled this question in a new projection series release this month.
Invisible care work has become a collective issue, and the data confirms it: It's time to integrate into our vision of growth what actually keeps our societies going.