Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Healthy Aging
This e-newsletter is the first in a series funded by the University of Michigan Demography Center.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
This e-newsletter is the first in a series funded by the University of Michigan Demography Center.
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
(2011) In which country do 72 percent of women marry before age 18? Worldwide, what percent of girls complete primary school? What is the average number of lifetime births per woman in Niger?
(2011) In the next two decades, the number of Americans age 55 orolder will swell from 76 million to 110 million as the large baby-boom generation continues to age.
(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.
(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."