Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
(2020) More unmarried couples today are living together, and doing so for longer than in the past, but fewer of these relationships lead to marriage, new research finds.
(2005) En début février de cette année, le Brésil s'était, une fois de plus, presque arrêté de fonctionner à l'occasion de la célébration annuelle du carnaval. Pendant les quatre jours de réjouissances, des bénévoles associés à plus de 1 800 organisations non-gouvernementales (ONG) ont distribué plus de 11 millions de préservatifs, financés par le Ministère de la santé brésilien, en plus des 20 millions qui sont normalement distribués chaque mois.
(2015) The maternal mortality ratio in Burkina Faso is 400 deaths per 100,000 live births, far higher than the global average of 126 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2013.
Project: Appalachia: Demographic and Socioeconomic Trends
In 2007, with the onset of the deepest economic recession in the United States since the Great Depression, Americans lost jobs and experienced sharp declines in the value of their homes and investments.
(2011) Kakenya Ntaiya was born in a rural village in southern Kenya, one of eight children. When she was 5 years old, her parents arranged an engagement to a local boy. She was to be circumcised before becoming a teenager to signify the end of her education and the start of married life. I
(2012) The impact of humans on climate is shaped by choices such as what we eat, where we live, how we travel, and how we heat our homes. Research has shown that all of these consumption patterns are influenced by various demographic characteristics, yet most projections of future emissions and related climate impacts focus only on population size.
(2010) In April 2010, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IMHE), a research center at the University of Washington, released estimates showing unexpected declines in global maternal mortality compared with previous UN estimates.