(2012) Growing numbers of children in the United States are living with a grandparent. In 2010, about one in 14 U.S. children (7 percent) lived in a household headed by a grandparent—for a total of 5.4 million children, up from 4.7 million in 2005.1
(2019) More than 300 million people live in the United States and getting an accurate count of each and every one of them is no easy feat. As the U.S. population has grown—from just under 4 million in 1790 to more than 329 million in 2019—the Census Bureau’s enumeration methods (how they count people) have evolved to adapt to new technologies, increase efficiency and accuracy, and help to control rising costs.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
(2014) Countries around the world are paying more attention to inequality as an indicator of social and economic well-being.
Race plays an important role in how college affects women’s marriage, fertility, and employment.
(2007) How are environmental, poverty, and security trends in today's world affected by population dynamics? What is being done to address these issues? What is needed?
Older Adults, Communities of Color, and Renters Are Especially Vulnerable
(2003) The United States adopts more children from abroad than any other country. The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents has increased sharply, and nearly doubled during the 1990s.
(2010) In 1970, then-President Ferdinand Marcos launched the Philippines' first National Population Program to improve access to family planning to lower fertility and slow population growth. Fertility has declined since then, although the level is still high compared with other countries in Southeast Asia.