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Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health

Interactive. Four Dividends: How Age Structure Change Can Benefit Development

This web feature expands the concept of the demographic dividend to project four potential sets of benefits—in addition to economic growth, it outlines benefits in child survival, education, and political stability. A country’s likelihood of making substantial gains in each of these four sectors is tied to its age structure.

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Report. Household Change in The United States

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Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

Webinar: How State Contexts Impact Population Health

In this webinar, two distinguished researchers discussed how U.S. state policies and systems can affect racial and regional inequities in health and longevity.

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Gender Inequality at Work

(2004) Women's increased participation in paid work is a central change in gender relations over the last 50 years. The question is no longer whether the average woman will work or not, but rather when during her life course she will work. Most women now work—women at all education levels, of each racial and ethnic group, and across successive family statuses.

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India Releases Latest Census Results, Showing Population Catching Up to China

(2011) Together, China and India account for 37 percent of the world’s population. Both countries have conducted censuses over the past year, and when they report their census results, figures such as the widely accepted world population total are at risk of changing.

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PRB Discuss Online: The Middle East Youth Bulge, Causes and Consequences

(2008) Recent demographic trends have created a youth bulge in the Middle East and North Africa, with nearly one in every five people age 15 to 24. Despite its oil wealth and improved health and education systems, the region's political, social, and economic systems still do not meet the needs of this rapidly growing young population.

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Family, Friends Help Shape Childbearing Choices

(2014) Worldwide, childbearing decisions may be more of a group effort than we realized.

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Population Bulletin, vol. 56, no. 4. Elderly Americans

(2001) The United States is in the midst of a profound demographic change: the rapid aging of its population. The 2000 Census counted nearly 35 million people in the United States 65 years of age or older, about one of every eight Americans.

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