PRB Discuss Online: Demographic Divide, Diverging Population Growth Trends
September 2008) More than 80 million people were added to the world's population in 2008, which ensures continued growth in coming decades.
September 2008) More than 80 million people were added to the world's population in 2008, which ensures continued growth in coming decades.
(2010) Most poor children achieve less, exhibit more problem behaviors, and are less healthy than children raised in more-affluent families. Looking beyond these well-known correlations between poverty and negative outcomes in childhood, recent studies have assessed the effects of childhood poverty in the United States on later attainment and health.
(2014) The U.S. baby-boom generation – those born between 1946 and 1964 – is the largest generation in American history and a major force in the country’s demographic future.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
Data suggest that Appalachia faces a digital divide—not just between the Region’s households and the rest of the nation but also between the Region’s rural and more urban areas, say the authors of a Population Reference Bureau (PRB) report for the Appalachian Regional Commission.
Child marriage is a human rights violation.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
25.6 million people live in Appalachia's 420 counties. Since 2010, Appalachia's population has grown 1.4%; the nation's has grown 5.3%.
(2013) When it comes to education beyond high school in the United States, fewer males than females, fewer young people from low-income than high-income families, and a smaller share of blacks and Hispanics than whites and Asians tend to enroll and earn degrees.