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China’s Population: New Trends and Challenges (PDF: 713KB)
China has been the world's most populous country for centuries, and today makes up one-fifth of the world's population. Fewer children, later marriage, and longer life expectancy have affected family structures and created new challenges.

Population Growth and Deforestation: A Critical and Complex Relationship
While population growth and density are unquestionably related to forest cover trends, there is no simple way to describe or predict that association. Not surprisingly, the relationship is complex.

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United States
U.S. Census 2000: Multiracial Identity of Children of Mixed-Race Couples

Upcoming Training
Workshop on Communicating Population and Health Research to Policymakers Uganda, October 2004

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The American People Series
Graphics Bank
World Population Data Sheet
Population Bulletin
Reports on America
Population Handbook (PDF)
Population, Health, and Environment
Population: A Lively Introduction (PDF)

The 14.2 million U.S. children with at least one foreign-born parent comprised a fifth of the country’s children in 2002 and represented a 78 percent increase since 1990.



6,314,000,000

291,500,000
Source: 2003 World Population Data Sheet, PRB.

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