Recently added articles from Population Bulletin:
Rethinking Age and Aging
Dec 01, 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."1 In contrast to the growth of interest in and concern about population aging, the ...
U.S. Labor Force Trends
Jun 01, 2008; ... In the last 40 years, changing labor markets, globalization, and industrial restructuring have greatly influenced the size and composition of the U.S. labor force. The increasing mobility of labor, goods, and capital associated with globalization also potentially affects wages. Industrial ...
Immigration and America's Black Population
Dec 01, 2007; ... New flows of immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean are a growing component of the U.S. population. They are part of the racial and ethnic transformation of the United States in the 21st century. Although far outnumbered by nonblack Hispanic and Asian immigrants, the number of black immigrants ...
Challenges and Opportunities-The Population of the Middle East and North Africa
Jun 01, 2007; ... The countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) continue to fascinate and concern the rest of the world. With two-thirds of the world's known petroleum reserves, the region's economic and political importance far outweighs its population size. It has the worlds second-fastest growing ...
Population: A Lively Introduction 5TH EDITION
Mar 01, 2007; ... Most people think demography is just math in disguisea sort of dry social accounting. Once exposed to the subject, many change their minds. They come to appreciate the profound impact demographic forces have on societies. This has never been more true than during the past half-century, a period ...
Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping America
Dec 01, 2006; ... REVISED AND UPDATED 2ND EDITION Millions of foreigners enter the United States each day. Most are not immigrants planning to settle permanently. The vast majority are tourists, businesspeople, students, and temporary workers from other countries who are here for a few days, weeks, or ...
India's Population Reality: Reconciling Change and Tradition
Sep 01, 2006; ... (ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes obscured text omitted.) India is often described as a collection of many countries held together by a common destiny and a successful democracy. Its diverse ethnic, linguistic, geographic, religious, and demographic features reflect its ...
Controlling Infectious Diseases
Jun 01, 2006; ... The 20th century was a triumph for human health and longevity. An Indian born in 1900 had a life expectancy of 22 years; an American baby born that year could expect to live about 49 years. By century's end life expectancy had soared to unprecedented levels even in many poor countries. In 2005, ...
The Global Challenge of HIV and AIDS
Mar 01, 2006; ... The AIDS epidemic may be the most devastating health disaster in human history. The disease continues to ravage families and communities throughout the world. In addition to the 25 million people who had died of AIDS by the end of 2005, at least 40 million people are now living with HIV. An ...
Global Demographic Divide
Dec 01, 2005; ... A September 1963 cover of U.S. News & World Report posed this provocative question: Too Many People in the World? For many readers, this must have been a relatively novel idea. In previous decades, the United Nations had been primarily concerned about the possibility of massive mortality ...
The American Community Survey
Sep 01, 2005; ... The U.S. government has a long history of gathering information about the American people. Congress has authorized funds to conduct a national census of the U.S. population every 10 years since 1790, as required by the U.S. Constitution. When the first American leaders chose to allocate ...
New Marriages, New Families: U.S. Racial and Hispanic Intermarriage
Jun 01, 2005; ... Multiracial Americans have always been a part of the U.S. population. In colonial times, multiple-race children were born of unions between American Indians, Europeans, and Africans. Early U.S. population censuses included multiple-race categories such as mulatto and "mixed-blood" Indians. The ...
Global Aging: The Challenge of Success
Mar 01, 2005; ... Populations are growing older in countries throughout the world. While the populations of more developed countries have been aging for well over a century, this process began recently in most less developed countries, and it is being compressed into a few decades. By 2050, nearly 1.2 billion of ...
America's Military Population
Dec 01, 2004; ... The American military has been viewed as a form of national service, an occupation, a profession, a workplace, a calling, an industry, and a set of internal labor markets.1 Military service has touched most American families; nearly 26 million Americans living today have served in the ...
Disability in America
Sep 01, 2004; ... Nearly 50 million Americans-one of every five people ages 5 and older-have a disability, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. That number is expected to grow over the next 25 years as the U.S. baby-boom generation enters the ages most prone to disabling injuries and illnesses. Participation in ...
China's Population: New Trends and Challenges
Jun 01, 2004; ... China has been the world's most populous country for centuries and today makes up one-fifth of the world's population. It is no surprise that China's huge population, tumultuous demographic history, and possible future have attracted the world's attention. The country's growing economic ...
Transitions in World Population
Mar 01, 2004; ... by Population Reference Bureau staff World population was transformed in the 20th century as technological and social changes brought steep declines in birth rates and death rates around the world. The century began with 1.6 billion people and ended with 6.1 billion, mainly because of ...
Population: A Lively Introduction
Dec 01, 2003; ... Most people think demography is just math in disguise-a sort of dry social accounting. Once exposed to the subject, many change their minds. They come to appreciate the profound impact demographic forces have on societies. This has never been more true than during the past half-century, a period ...