PRB Discuss Online: Are Some U.S. Generations Luckier Than Others?
(2009) Unique events, political climates, and social and economic conditions shape each new generation in every society.
(2009) Unique events, political climates, and social and economic conditions shape each new generation in every society.
(2002) Overall child mortality declined significantly in the 1990s, but environmental hazards still kill at least 3 million children under age 5 every year.1 Such young children make up roughly 10 percent of the world's population, but comprise more than 40 percent of the population suffering from health problems related to the environment.2
Population Bulletin 74, No. 1 This Bulletin provides a preview of 2020 Census results—identified through data from surveys, population estimates, and projections—and an overview of key population and housing trends.
(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.
2007) In 2005, about 191 million people—3 percent of the world's population—were international migrants, according to UN estimates.