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Saving Sake: As Its Population Declines, Akita Fights for a Historic Industry

Akita Prefecture, world-renowned for its rice and sake, is facing a major demographic challenge.

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Pakistan’s Historic Floods Threaten Progress in Maternal and Child Health

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.

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South Korea’s Demographic Dividend

(2012) The countries known as the "Asian Tigers" are good examples of the advantages to be gained when changes in fertility can be a springboard for economic growth. (The Asian Tiger countries are Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand.)

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Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health

2019 Family Planning Data Sheet Highlights Family Planning Method Use Around the World

Featured indicators include the percentage of married women using modern and traditional family planning methods, unmet need for family planning, use of modern contraception by wealth group, and demand for family planning satisfied by modern methods.

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America’s Diversity and Growth: Signposts for the 21st Century

(2000) At the beginning of the 21st century, demographic trends seem to many Americans to signal new, potentially disquieting changes in the U.S. population.

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The Impact of Climate Change on Water, Sanitation, and Diarrheal Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean

Water and sanitation play a crucial role in the transmission of diarrheal disease. These environmental factors contribute to approximately 94 percent of the 4 billion cases of diarrhea that the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates to occur globally each year.

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PRB Discuss Online: Combating Malaria, What More Can We Do Now?

(2008) Encouraging progress against malaria was made in the Americas and some parts of Asia in the last century, but the first global campaign to stop malaria didn't succeed.

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Population Bulletin Update: Immigration in America 2010 (PDF)

This Population Bulletin Update is a follow-up to 2006's Population Bulletin, "Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping America" by Phil Martin and Elizabeth Midgley, and provides new data and analysis on the economic impacts and policy debates around immigration.

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