(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.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
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(2002) Wedged between the world's two population billionaires, China and India, Nepal is struggling with its own population pressures.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
In the United States, over 24 million people provide unpaid care for older adults—a 32% increase from a decade ago.
(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."
