(2004) Asians in the Americas date back to the arrival of Chinese and Filipino crews of the galleon trade between Manila and Acapulco starting in the 16th century. Many of these sailors jumped ship and migrated north and east to the United States. Some established communities along the Gulf of Mexico, such as the Louisiana Manilamen, which produced over 10 generations of Filipino-American descendants.
(2008) The global health community is mounting an unprecedented effort against the deadly scourge of malaria.
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
(2012) Every year, as a result of prenatal sex selection, 1.5 million girls around the world are missing at birth—it is as if the entire female population of Nairobi simply disappeared.
2007) In 2005, about 191 million people—3 percent of the world's population—were international migrants, according to UN estimates.
(2008) The aging of baby boomers and the fact that women's labor force participation has already peaked are expected to slow U.S. labor force growth in the near future.
(2004) The following excerpt is from the report A Demographic Portrait of Asian Americans, by Yu Xie and Kimberly Goyette and published by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Population Reference Bureau. This report is one of several in the new series The American People, which sets the results of Census 2000 in context and collectively provides a portrait of the American people in a new century.