Driving Up Demand for Health Services in Latin America
(2008) Millions of people live in poverty in Latin America, and many young people often face few prospects for a bright future.
(2008) Millions of people live in poverty in Latin America, and many young people often face few prospects for a bright future.
By law, the U.S. government is required to count the number of people living in the United States every 10 years.
(2008) The U.S. population is aging: The ratio of elderly to the working-age population in the United States will roughly double over the next few decades, straining the finances of the U.S. Social Security system and other government programs.
(2008) A new report from the Pew Research Center projects that immigration will propel the U.S. population total to 438 million by 2050, from 303 million today (see Figure 1). Along with this growth, the racial and ethnic profile of Americans will continue to shift—with non-Hispanic whites losing their majority status.
(September 2007) The world is on the verge of a shift: from predominantly rural to mainly urban.
(2003) The lingering effects of a long civil war, climatic changes, and infectious diseases represent major threats to life in the southern African nation of Mozambique, where 17.5 million people live, the vast majority in rural poverty.
(August 2005) The April 2005 death of Pope John Paul II and the weeks leading to the selection of his replacement stimulated much thought and discussion about who the new pope would be and in which directions he would lead the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics.