In U.S., Who Is at Greatest Risk for Suicides?
(2010) More than 30,000 Americans commit suicide each year; hundreds of thousands more attempt it but fail.
(2010) More than 30,000 Americans commit suicide each year; hundreds of thousands more attempt it but fail.
(2009) A new PRB report, Children in Immigrant Families Chart New Path, looks at the U.S. children of immigrants through a demographic lens. There are more than 16 million children living in America's immigrant families.
(August 2006) The chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Kigoma Region, Tanzania, have come under increased pressure from four decades of high human population growth in the region and an associated increase in human activity and disease.
(2010) The State of Metropolitan America, by the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, identifies five demographic trends and developments that dominated the first decade of the 2000s in the 100 largest metro areas of the United States.
In early 2011, Pietronella van den Oever, PRB visiting scholar,visited the Malian staff and villagers she worked with in a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) rural training project in the mid-1970s. As part of PRB's 2011-2012 Policy Seminar series, she discussed her recent research on the project's results, which continue to be economically and socially important 40 years later.
(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."