(2006) The world's elderly population is quickly growing, both in its absolute numbers and in its percentage relative to the younger population—the latter trend known as population aging.
(2010) Most poor children achieve less, exhibit more problem behaviors, and are less healthy than children raised in more-affluent families. Looking beyond these well-known correlations between poverty and negative outcomes in childhood, recent studies have assessed the effects of childhood poverty in the United States on later attainment and health.
At least 16 million Pakistanis have had to leave their homes because of historic monsoon rains that flooded a large swath of the country.1 The UN estimates the flooding has caused the deaths of 1,600 people, but the worst health effects are still ahead.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
PRB’s World Population Data Sheet is an annual report on the world’s demographic, health, and environmental progress and challenges.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
Data suggest that Appalachia faces a digital divide—not just between the Region’s households and the rest of the nation but also between the Region’s rural and more urban areas, say the authors of a Population Reference Bureau (PRB) report for the Appalachian Regional Commission.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
88.5% of Appalachian adults (ages 25-64) have earned a high school diploma, similar to the U.S. average of 88.6%.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
Appalachia's median household income is 83% of the U.S. figure.
Carbon dioxide emissions have grown dramatically in the past century because of human activity, chiefly the use of fossil fuels such as oil and coal, as well as changes in land use such as cutting down forests.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
25.6 million people live in Appalachia's 420 counties. Since 2010, Appalachia's population has grown 1.4%; the nation's has grown 5.3%.
(2005) Americans perched on punctured rooftops in the blazing sun for days. Others slogged through rising floodwaters. And many others rushed inland before the storm hit, only to remain homeless weeks later, unable to return to their ruined homes.