Population Bulletin, vol. 62, no. 3: World Population Highlights 2007–Migration
2007) In 2005, about 191 million people—3 percent of the world's population—were international migrants, according to UN estimates.
2007) In 2005, about 191 million people—3 percent of the world's population—were international migrants, according to UN estimates.
(2009) Malaria threatens close to one-half of the world's population, and more than 1 million children die each year of malaria-related complications.
In February 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a panel of international experts assessing the current scientific knowledge on climate asserted that warming of the earth's climate system is "unequivocal."1
(2007) The U.S. Census Bureau plans to eliminate the "foster child" relationship category on its questionnaires for the 2010 Census and the American Community Survey. They will be counted with other children, but foster children's characteristics as a group will not be available.
(2010) Although sharing a land border with Greece and just across the Adriatic Sea from Italy, Albania was socially and politically isolated from the rest of Europe when it emerged from Soviet influence in the early 1990s.
Attempts at immigration reform should address issues that have been with us, in various guises, for at least a century.
(2010) A recent survey found that young Americans ages 18 to 29 have nearly universal acceptance of interracial dating and marriage within their own families.
(2006) The United States is set to reach a milestone in October. Joining China and India, it will become the third country to be home to at least 300 million people.