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Population: A Lively Introduction

(2007)When where you born? How many brothers and sisters did you have? Where did your ancestors live? How long will you live?

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PowerPoint Presentation. International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Marks Ninth Year

(2012) Feb. 6, 2012, marks the ninth commemoration of the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting. An estimated 100 million to 140 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), and more than 3 million girls are at risk for cutting each year on the African continent alone.

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United Nations Raises Projected World Population

(2013) The United Nations Population Division has just released its comprehensive estimates and projections, World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision. The results show a larger global population size in 2050, 9.6 billion, up from the 9.3 billion that the UN projected in its 2010 Revision. A major reason for the higher projection is higher fertility (birth rates) in some countries than previously estimated, particularly in Africa. Much of that information comes from recent demographic surveys.

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Proposed Changes in Immigration Policy Put Children at Risk of Losing Health Insurance

(2018) Many children may lose public health insurance and nutrition assistance benefits under proposed changes to U.S. immigration policy.

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South American Transition to Low Fertility Spreads to Paraguay

(2010) Paraguay does not seem a likely candidate for rapid fertility decline: The population is poorer, more rural, and has lower educational levels than its neighboring countries.

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Albania’s Fertility Decline Tied to Traditional Family Planning Methods

(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.

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