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.
(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.
(2002) According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), reproductive health care is among the crucial elements that give refugees the basic human welfare and dignity that is their right.1
(2014) Throughout human history, the world's population had grown slowly and by the beginning of the 20th century was only 1.6 billion people. Today, after only 110 years, the world's population has surpassed 7.1 billion people.
(2010) Disability in older Americans affects the entire population of the United States because of its impact on the level of health care spending, especially spending on long-term care.
(2008) There has been increasing international news coverage of the excess of young boys in India resulting from the abortion of female fetuses.1
(2010) With almost half of the world's population under age 25, investments in young people are vital to improve economic and social outcomes and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
(2013) With technology producing more and cheaper ways to determine the sex of a fetus, fewer girls are being born—an estimated 1.5 million of them every year. They are sometimes referred to as the "missing" girls, the ones who were never born because of the premium some societies place on boys.
(2010) Latinos are increasingly shaping the demographic makeup of the United States.
(December 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."