Immigration Response in Suburban Washington, DC
(2009) With a lack of clear federal legislation on immigration, some municipal governments are enacting restrictionist policies to address the changing demographics of their communities.
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Are the 58 Million Girls Who Married Early Overlooked by Policies and Programs?
(2011) Despite the recent attention to ending early marriage around the world, married adolescents remain invisible to many policymakers and program developers.
Three States Account for Nearly Half of U.S. Population Growth
(2015) California, Florida, and Texas made up a combined 27 percent of the U.S. population in 2015 but accounted for 48 percent of U.S. population growth between 2014 and 2015, according to new Census Bureau estimates.
Promoting Healthy Behaviors Among Youth to Tackle Kenya’s Growing Noncommunicable Diseases Epidemic
Kenya is experiencing a growing epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). A window of opportunity exists to address the four key NCD risk behaviors ( tobacco use, alcohol use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity) in Kenya's large and growing youth population.
The State of Metropolitan America
(2010) The State of Metropolitan America, by the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, identifies five demographic trends and developments that dominated the first decade of the 2000s in the 100 largest metro areas of the United States.
Vasectomy an Option for African Men in Family Planning
(2011) "Vasectomy is like putting money in the bank. [It] is a long-term investment, money you [would] have otherwise used to buy expensive birth control methods," says Dr. Charles Ochieng, a medical doctor in Kenya.
Outlining the Links Among Population, Economy, Culture, and the Environment
2008) Joel E. Cohen, professor and head of the Laboratory of Populations at Rockefeller and Columbia Universities and a trustee of the Population Reference Bureau, kicked off a new lecture series on demographics and development sponsored by the Center for Global Development, on Sept. 23 in Washington, D.C. Entitled "Beyond Population: Everybody Counts in Development," his presentation focused on the links among population, the economy, culture, and the environment, and the need to examine development holistically.
Project: Appalachia: Demographic and Socioeconomic Trends
Chartbook. The Appalachian Region: A Data Overview from the 2007-2011 American Community Survey
(2013) Appalachia's residents remain older, less educated, and less racially diverse than the United States as a whole, but those demographic and socioeconomic patterns vary widely within the region, according to The Appalachian Region: A Data Overview From the 2007-2011 American Community Survey, prepared by the Population Reference Bureau for the Appalachian Regional Commission.
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PRB Discuss Online. Two Decades of Data Collection on Female Genital Cutting: What Has Changed?
(2011) For more than 20 years, since the first data collection in Sudan in 1989, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) team at Macro International has been tracking the prevalence of female genital cutting (FGC), also known as female genital mutilation and female circumcision.
2009 World Population Data Sheet
(2009) Global population numbers are on track to reach 7 billion in 2011, just 12 years after reaching 6 billion in 1999. Virtually all of the growth is in developing countries.
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