Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
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Project: BRIDGE: Bringing Information to Decisionmakers for Global Effectiveness
How HIV and AIDS Affect Populations
( 2006) The AIDS epidemic is one of the most destructive health crises of modern times, ravaging families and communities throughout the world.
The Challenge of Attaining the Demographic Dividend
(2012) Policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders optimistically discuss the demographic dividend.
Accidental Poisoning Deaths Exceed Homicides of U.S. Young Adults
(2016) Drug overdoses propelled the number of accidental poisonings above homicides as a cause of death among young adults ages 20 to 24 in the United States, according to 2014 data released recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
Family Planning Improves the Economic Well-Being of Families and Communities
Family planning is widely recognized as one of the most cost-effective health interventions.
World Population Aging: Clocks Illustrate Growth in Population Under Age 5 and Over Age 65
(2011) The world's population is growing—and aging. Very low birth rates in developed countries, coupled with birth rate declines in most developing countries, are projected to increase the population ages 65 and over to the point in 2050 when it will be 2.5 times that of the population ages 0-4. This is an exact reversal of the situation in 1950.
2007 World Population Data Sheet
Malnutrition plays a role in the deaths of about 16,000 young children every day, virtually all of them in the developing world.
The Social and Economic Isolation of Urban African Americans
(October 2005) Hurricane Katrina’s devastation in late August of much of the northern Gulf Coast followed by the slow institutional response to the crisis exposed the impoverishment and disempowerment of many African Americans.
Distilled Demographics: Urbanization
Video Series: When we think of urbanization, we tend to think of sprawling cities with skyscrapers. However, the definition of "urban" varies greatly from country to country.
2012 World Population Data Sheet
Nearly all future population growth will be in the world's less developed countries, and the poorest of these countries will see the greatest percentage increase.