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.
(2011) Global population will reach 7 billion later in 2011, just 12 years after reaching 6 billion in 1999.
(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.
(2010) Over the past 20 years, the number of Latino children under age 18 living in the United States has doubled, making them one of the fastest-growing segments of the national population.
Project: Appalachia: Demographic and Socioeconomic Trends
(2015) Appalachia's residents in their prime working years are less likely to be in the labor force or to hold college degrees than the U.S. population as a whole, but these and other demographic, health, and socioeconomic patterns vary widely within the region.
(2014) Worldwide, childbearing decisions may be more of a group effort than we realized.
(2001) It is now clear that the 21st century will feature a major transformation in world population.