The Fred H. Bixby Forum: The World in 2050
The Fred H. Bixby Forum: A Scientific Investigation of the Impact of Global Population Changes on a Divided Planet
The Fred H. Bixby Forum: A Scientific Investigation of the Impact of Global Population Changes on a Divided Planet
(2011) Germany's recovery from the devastation of World War II is often called an "economic miracle" because its economy is now Europe's largest. Immigration has been an important part of the country's modern demographic history.
(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.
For 20 years, Population Reference Bureau has been connecting human health and planetary health, to show how population dynamics (including family planning) and environmental change interact and affect human and planetary health. Our new name for this practice area is People, Health, Planet.
(December 2008) According to the United Nations (UN), "Population ageing is unprecedented, without parallel in human history and the twenty-first century will witness even more rapid ageing than did the century just past."
In November 2007, an East Africa Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) network took shape at a conference convened by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and LEM Ethiopia, the Environment and Development Society of Ethiopia.
(December 2008) According to the United Nations (UN), "Population ageing is unprecedented, without parallel in human history and the twenty-first century will witness even more rapid ageing than did the century just past."
(2010) Racial and ethnic minorities make up a growing share of the U.S. population—35 percent in 2009, up from 31 percent in 2000, according to new population estimates from the Census Bureau.