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Tables: Fertility Rates in Low Birth-Rate Countries, 1996-2011
How Many People in the United States Are Experiencing Homelessness?
(2020) The economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States include an unemployment rate higher than at any time in the country’s history—including the Great Depression. As an unprecedented number of Americans struggle with job loss, many of them may lose their homes. Many others may lose their homes due to natural disasters or other crises.
International Migration Transforms Australia
(2001) Immigration since World War II has transformed Australian society and population. Many residents of Australia are immigrants or are the children of immigrants.
Q&A With Kyler Sherman-Wilkins
PRB spoke with him about his goals for the program and future implications for the study of demography.
What’s Driving the Decline in U.S. Population Growth?
(2012) Between 2010 and 2011, the U.S. population increased by 0.7 percent, after averaging 0.9 percent growth each year from 2000 through 2010.1 The United States added just 2.3 million people from 2010 to 2011, compared with 2.9 million from 2005 to 2006, just five years earlier.
Transitions in World Population
(2004)World population was transformed in the 20th century as technological and social changes brought steep declines in birth rates and death rates around the world. The century began with 1.6 billion people and ended with 6.1 billion, mainly because of unprecedented growth after 1960.
Why Concentrated Poverty Fell in the United States in the 1990s
( 2005) Concentrated poverty—often defined as the number of people living in neighborhoods with poverty rates exceeding 40 percent—fell substantially in the United States in the 1990s, according to a new report by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Involving Everyone in Gender Equality by Synchronizing Gender Strategies
(2018) Much has changed since 2010 when the Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG) published the breakthrough report Synchronizing Gender Strategies: A Cooperative Model for Improving Reproductive Health and Transforming Gender Relations.