100 Years and Beyond: Increasing Human Life Expectancy
(2010) Humans are living longer than ever before. In fact, newborn children in high-income countries can expect to live to more than 100 years.
(2010) Humans are living longer than ever before. In fact, newborn children in high-income countries can expect to live to more than 100 years.
(2011) March 8, 2011, marks the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. The past 100 years has witnessed much progress but there remains an unfinished agenda in many regions of the world. International Women's Day traces its roots back to the second International Conference of Working Women held in Copenhagen in 1910.
Attempts at immigration reform should address issues that have been with us, in various guises, for at least a century.
(2006)In June, the body of Philip Merrill, a Maryland-based publisher and philanthropist who had donated tens of millions of dollars to his favorite causes and served on many high-profile diplomatic and intelligence assignments, was found in the Chesapeake Bay. An autopsy confirmed that Merrill, age 72, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
(2017) New studies add to the growing body of research on the toll U.S. mass incarceration is taking on prisoner’s children and families. Three recent articles in the journal Demography document the spillover effects of the prison boom on family poverty, couples’ relationship stability, and child well-being.
(2005) A working knowledge of the basic vocabulary of population geography is required in order for students to master important underlying concepts. Likewise, students need to understand the mathematical relationships implicit in population statistics and the broader social and economic implications of such relationships.
(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).