PRB Discuss Online: What Is Your ‘Race’? A Question Increasingly Difficult to Answer
(2010) The concept of "race" has always been controversial, given ugly associations with slavery, the eugenics movement, and racism.
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Why Is the U.S. Census So Important?
The 2020 Census count began in January, kicking off a once-a-decade operation in which every household in the United States will be asked to answer a short series of questions that will influence policymaking and planning for the next decade.
What Can Be Done to Protect the Chimpanzees and Other Great Apes of Africa?
(August 2006) The chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Kigoma Region, Tanzania, have come under increased pressure from four decades of high human population growth in the region and an associated increase in human activity and disease.
U.S. Census Shows Different Paths for Domestic and Foreign-Born Migrants
(2002) America has always been a country on the move, and its growing immigrant population has added to that mobility. Yet recently released Census 2000 place-of-birth data show that the native-born population is moving to a different set of states than the traditional immigrant gateways — California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, and New Jersey — that continue to show the largest foreign-born gains.
Asian Americans: Diverse and Growing
Population Bulletin 53, No. 2 (1998)
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Family Planning Improves the Lives and Health of the Urban Poor and Saves Money
(2010) This year's World Health Day (April 7) focuses on the importance of urban health. Urbanization is occurring so rapidly in some parts of the world that cities are not able to keep up with increased demand for environmental, health, and educational services, not to mention the employment, housing, and transportation needs of a population that may double in size in less than 25 years.
Objections Surface Over Nigerian Census Results
(2007) Provisional results of the 2006 census in Nigeria show that Kano in the north is Nigeria's most populous state (9.4 million), followed by Lagos (9.0 million) in the south. Northern states account for 75 million people, while the southern states are home to 65 million. The total population was 140 million.
North Korea Census Reveals Poor Demographic and Health Conditions
(2010) The Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea, one of the few remaining Communist countries, has demographic similarities and disparities with wealthier, democratic South Korea.
PRB Discuss Online: Environmental Change, What Are the Links With Migration?
2008) Close to 200 million people are living outside their country of birth. Increasing numbers are refugees fleeing their homeland for another country.