(2004)World population was transformed in the 20th century as technological and social changes brought steep declines in birth rates and death rates around the world. The century began with 1.6 billion people and ended with 6.1 billion, mainly because of unprecedented growth after 1960.
(2018) Much has changed since 2010 when the Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG) published the breakthrough report Synchronizing Gender Strategies: A Cooperative Model for Improving Reproductive Health and Transforming Gender Relations.
(2011) China, the world's only other "demographic billionaire," along with India, released the results of its Nov. 1, 2010 Census on April 28.
(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.
(2008) Results from a new U.S. report by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life indicate that more than one-fourth of U.S. adults have left their childhood faith to join another religion or are no longer affiliated with any religion.
(2010) Many developing countries adopted policies to slow population growth in the latter half of the 20th century in response to population growth rates that had risen to three or more times greater than those ever observed in industrialized countries.
( 2005) Concentrated poverty—often defined as the number of people living in neighborhoods with poverty rates exceeding 40 percent—fell substantially in the United States in the 1990s, according to a new report by the U.S. Census Bureau.
(2016) Latino children currently account for one-fourth of U.S. children under age 18, and by 2050 they are projected to make up nearly one-third of the child population. Of the 18.2 million Latino children currently living in the United States, 95 percent are U.S.-born citizens.
(2011) China, the world's only other "demographic billionaire," along with India, released the results of its Nov. 1, 2010 Census on April 28.
(2012) Feb. 6, 2012, marks the ninth commemoration of the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting. An estimated 100 million to 140 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), and more than 3 million girls are at risk for cutting each year on the African continent alone.