U.S. Household Composition Shifts as the Population Grows Older; More Young Adults Live With Parents
Household size and composition play an important role in the economic and social well-being of families and individuals.
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U.S. Trends in Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke
(2002) Deaths from heart disease have fallen dramatically over the past 50 years in the United States, from over 589 age-adjusted deaths per 100,000 people in 1950 to less than half that number in 2000 (258 per 100,000).
U.S. Has World’s Highest Incarceration Rate
(2012) Since 2002, the United States has had the highest incarceration rate in the world. Although prison populations are increasing in some parts of the world, the natural rate of incarceration for countries comparable to the United States tends to stay around 100 prisoners per 100,000 population.
31,780 Reasons to Care About Gun Violence
In 2020, for the first time in decades, more children ages 17 and younger died from guns than from motor vehicle crashes.
Smoking-Related Deaths Keep U.S. Life Expectancy Below Other Wealthy Countries
(2010) The United States has a lower life expectancy than many other wealthy countries—and the gap has been widening over the last two decades.
The Demographic Divide: What It Is and Why It Matters
(2005) Public attention has begun to focus on the "demographic divide," the vast gulf in birth and death rates among the world's countries.
How People in India ‘Really’ Live
(2008) Media reports on the "exploding" middle class in India would lead any reader to believe that Indian society is undergoing a top-to-bottom transformation into a society of Western-style consumers. A recent Business Week article quoted a McKinsey Global Institute study that claimed that India, in one generation, would become a nation of upwardly mobile middle-class households, consuming goods ranging from high-end cars to designer clothing.
Is Delhi India’s Largest City?
(November 2007) India is both a highly rural country, with the large majority of its population living in villages, and home to some of the world’s largest metropolitan areas.