Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Fact Sheet: U.S. Dementia Trends
As the large baby boomer population ages, the total number of people with dementia in the United States will rise.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
As the large baby boomer population ages, the total number of people with dementia in the United States will rise.
(2014) Over the past decade, countries throughout Africa have experienced sustained economic growth. Despite this growth, almost two of every three people—or 600 million—are still living on less than $2 per day.
At least 16 million Pakistanis have had to leave their homes because of historic monsoon rains that flooded a large swath of the country.1 The UN estimates the flooding has caused the deaths of 1,600 people, but the worst health effects are still ahead.
(2008) Even as African women use family planning more and bear fewer children, the continent's youthful population will fuel the continent's growth for many decades to come.
(2014) Is there a retirement crisis, or are older Americans preparing adequately for their "golden years"?
(2010) In 1970, then-President Ferdinand Marcos launched the Philippines' first National Population Program to improve access to family planning to lower fertility and slow population growth. Fertility has declined since then, although the level is still high compared with other countries in Southeast Asia.
(2013) The number of international migrants more than doubled between 1980 and 2010, from 103 million to 220 million.1 In 2013, the number of international migrants was 232 million and is projected to double to over 400 million by 2050.