(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.
(2012) The countries known as the "Asian Tigers" are good examples of the advantages to be gained when changes in fertility can be a springboard for economic growth. (The Asian Tiger countries are Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand.)
(2010) Many developing countries adopted policies to slow population growth in the latter half of the 20th century in response to population growth rates that had risen to three or more times greater than those ever observed in industrialized countries.
Korea must first address its gender issues, argues PRB President and CEO Jennifer D. Sciubba
(2009) "1.57 Shock" was a popular media phrase in Japan back in 1990 after the fertility rate (TFR) fell to its lowest value ever: 1.57 lifetime births per woman, recorded for 1989.1 This was even below the 1.58 children per woman reached during the inauspicious year of the Fire Horse—1966.
(October 2001) For the first time, more half of the world's population will be living in urban areas by the end of this decade.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
(2020) Older Americans on average have a higher level of age-related health problems than their counterparts in Europe and many other countries (see table).
