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Why the 2020 American Community Survey Is Different and Why It Matters

The COVID pandemic impeded data collection for the United States’ premier survey of local communities. How can we measure a changing America?

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Global Aging: The Challenge of Success

(2005) Populations are growing older in countries throughout the world. While the populations of more developed countries have been aging for well over a century, this process began recently in most less developed countries, and it is being compressed into a few decades. By 2050, nearly 1.2 billion of the expected 1.5 billion people age 65 or older will reside in today's less developed regions.

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L’urbanisation: une force environnementale incontournable

(Avril 2004) Les êtres humains sont devenus une force environnementale d'importance croissante ces dernières 10 000 années.

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Domestic Violence in Developing Countries: An Intergenerational Crisis

(2004) A new comparative study using nationally representative information on domestic violence in nine developing countries finds that women whose fathers abused their mothers are twice as likely to suffer domestic abuse themselves.

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Ripple Effects: Population and Coastal Regions

(2003) Coastal regions, areas that are home to a large and growing proportion of the world's population, are undergoing environmental decline.

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China Abandons One-Child Policy

(2015) China has abandoned its one-child policy, according to news reports. So what would be the demographic implications of this two-child policy?

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What Is a City? What Is Urbanization?

In 2008, the United Nations announced that 50 percent of the world's population now lives in urban areas, a milestone in demographic history.

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