Population Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 3: World Population Highlights–Key Findings From PRB’s 2009 World Population Data Sheet
(2009) Population change will shape the prospects of regions and countries over the next half century.
(2009) Population change will shape the prospects of regions and countries over the next half century.
(2011) In her new book, The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security, author Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba argues that the future of warfare will be shaped by demographic trends in fertility, mortality, and migration.
World population has surpassed 7 billion, and we are in the midst of history's most rapid population expansion.
(2007) New population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show that Hispanics continue to fuel rapid population growth in the United States. Between 2000 and 2006, the Hispanic population grew from 35.3 million to 44.3 million, a 26 percent increase.
(2006) The world's elderly population is quickly growing, both in its absolute numbers and in its percentage relative to the younger population—the latter trend known as population aging.
(2012) Between 2010 and 2011, the U.S. population increased by 0.7 percent, after averaging 0.9 percent growth each year from 2000 through 2010.1 The United States added just 2.3 million people from 2010 to 2011, compared with 2.9 million from 2005 to 2006, just five years earlier.
This lesson provides students with the background to understand the importance of age structure on population growth.
Highlights From the 2024 World Population Data Sheet