Diverse Factors Linked to Maternal Deaths in Zambia
(2003) Poor access to health facilities and low-quality health care delivery may be among the reasons that Zambia is facing increasing levels of maternal deaths.
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Changes in Fertility Rates Among Muslims in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
(2009) The number of Muslims worldwide is projected to grow over the next decade to reach one-quarter of the world's population, largely because of higher fertility among Muslim populations.
What Demographers Saw Coming: The Largest Graduating Class in U.S. History
A milestone class, a demographic forecast come true — here’s what the numbers say about the Class of 2025.
The Rural Rebound
(1999) Both of these visions of rural America reflect a fundamental fact: Throughout most of the 20th century, millions of people moved out of the thousands of towns and counties nestled far from major highways and city lights. American agriculture prospered, but the mechanization of farm work, several droughts, and the changing economics of farming hurt once-thriving small towns and counties.
Environmental Refugees or Economic Migrants?
(2010) As the evidence for global environmental change has accumulated over the past decade, academics, policymakers, and the media have given more attention to the issue of "environmental refugees."
Emerging Trends in Disability
(2001) Disability is an ambiguous demographic, but one that is unambiguously increasing. Socioeconomic trends such as aging and other factors have contributed to the growth of the population categorized as disabled, making disability an important issue for policymakers, even though its definition is often a point of contention.
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U.S. Racial Inequality May Be as Deadly as the Coronavirus
The mortality rate for Black Americans in non-pandemic years is higher than the mortality rate for white Americans who died from COVID-19 and all other causes in 2020.