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How Demographic Changes Make Us More Vulnerable to Pandemics Like the Coronavirus
(2020) The world is better equipped to fight a pandemic today than it was in 1918, when influenza swept the globe and infected up to one-third of the world’s population.1 While science and medical advances have given us new advantages in fighting disease, some demographic trends since 1918 may increase the risk for spreading contagions and our vulnerability to viruses.
Demographic Data for Development Decisionmaking
(June 2009) Development is about improving the lives of people, and policy and fiscal decisions should rely on data that answer who these people are, where and how they live, and how their lives are changing.
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Report. Demographic Data for Development Decisionmaking, Case Studies From Ethiopia and Uganda
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The World’s Next ‘Population Problem’
(2005) Ask about "the population problem" to people of a certain age, and the first and perhaps only thing that comes to mind is the "population bomb" or "population explosion."
A Demographic Portrait of Asian Americans
(2004) The following excerpt is from the report A Demographic Portrait of Asian Americans, by Yu Xie and Kimberly Goyette and published by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Population Reference Bureau. This report is one of several in the new series The American People, which sets the results of Census 2000 in context and collectively provides a portrait of the American people in a new century.
Ukraine’s Demographic Reality
(2014) Ukraine, a former republic of the Soviet Union, has undergone a series of dramatic demographic changes since its independence in 1991. Most significant, its birth rate declined sharply following independence, mirroring similar developments in other former Soviet republics.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
How Accurate Was the 2020 Census—and Why Should You Care?
Significant undercounts in the 2020 Census could have serious consequences for underrepresented groups and individual states.