(2018) A new publication from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies eight key demographic trends shaping the rapidly growing U.S. population ages 65 and older—projected to nearly double from 51 million in 2017 to 95 million by 2060.
PRB spoke with him about his goals for the program and future implications for the study of demography.
People are living longer and having fewer children, but the impact of this differs among nations.
(1999) The 20th century has witnessed the transformation of the United States from a predominately white population rooted in Western culture to a society with a rich array of racial and ethnic minorities.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Today's Research on Aging, Issue 31: As older Americans live longer, researchers are exploring the connections between health and well-being in order to improve the overall quality of life in later years.
(2003) The successes are real, but they're small compared to the task: reaching the half-million adolescents who form some 20 percent of this island's 2.5 million population and enabling them to adopt healthier sexual lifestyles.
2011) In Yemen, one in three women ages 20 to 24 report that they were married before their 18th birthday. And although there seems to be a positive trend over generations, Yemen still has the highest rate of early marriage in western Asia and is considered one of the top 20 "hot spots" for child marriage.
