Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
The United Nations projects that there will be 366 million older Chinese adults by 2050, which is substantially larger than the current total U.S. population of 331 million.
(2009) Whether young people will gain access to education and employment opportunities over the coming years and decades is one of the major questions facing developing countries with large youth populations.
(2011) China, the world's only other "demographic billionaire," along with India, released the results of its Nov. 1, 2010 Census on April 28.
(2011) Global population will reach 7 billion later in 2011, just 12 years after reaching 6 billion in 1999.
(2006) With a population growth rate of nearly 1 percent a year, the United States is the fastest growing developed country in the world. While many European countries are facing population decline, the U.S. population is growing as fast as or faster than many developing countries. And the total population of the United States (currently at 296 million) is expected to reach 300 million some time this summer—and about 450 million by the year 2050.
(2007) Blank map of the United States for use in lesson plans.
(2009) On May 14, demographic and environmental experts discussed the health effects of climate change on the world's growing urban population at the symposium "Climate Change and Urban Adaptation: Managing Unavoidable Health Risks in Developing Countries."