Ripple Effects: Population and Coastal Regions
(2003) Coastal regions, areas that are home to a large and growing proportion of the world's population, are undergoing environmental decline.
(2003) Coastal regions, areas that are home to a large and growing proportion of the world's population, are undergoing environmental decline.
Household size and composition play an important role in the economic and social well-being of families and individuals.
(2005) Populations are growing older in countries throughout the world. While the populations of more developed countries have been aging for well over a century, this process began recently in most less developed countries, and it is being compressed into a few decades. By 2050, nearly 1.2 billion of the expected 1.5 billion people age 65 or older will reside in today's less developed regions.
2008) Close to 200 million people are living outside their country of birth. Increasing numbers are refugees fleeing their homeland for another country.
(2010) Paraguay does not seem a likely candidate for rapid fertility decline: The population is poorer, more rural, and has lower educational levels than its neighboring countries.
In 2008, the United Nations announced that 50 percent of the world's population now lives in urban areas, a milestone in demographic history.
(Avril 2004) Les êtres humains sont devenus une force environnementale d'importance croissante ces dernières 10 000 années.
(2009) A new PRB report, Children in Immigrant Families Chart New Path, looks at the U.S. children of immigrants through a demographic lens. There are more than 16 million children living in America's immigrant families.