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2004 World Population
Data Sheet

The just-released 2004 World Population Data Sheet has the most up-to-date demographic data and estimates for all the countries and regions of the world.

World Population Highlights 2004
This policy brief provides highlights of the 2004 World Population Data Sheet.

Asia and HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS Epidemics Expanding Rapidly in Asia
China's Population: New Trends and Challenges (PDF: 713KB)
China's Growing AIDS Epidemic Increasingly Affects Women

United States
Immigration and Fading Color Lines in America
Rural Kids in U.S. Lagging in Health, Education
U.S. Census 2000: Multiracial Identity of Children of Mixed-Race Couples

Other News and Reports
Improving Reproductive Health in Romania (PDF: 140KB)
Population Growth and Deforestation: A Critical and Complex Relationship
The Healthy Newborn Partnership (PDF: 184KB)

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


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)

Niger is expected to have the world's fastest-growing population between now and 2050, more than quadrupling to 53 million. Bulgaria will decline the most, from 8 million to about 5 million.



6,396,000,000

293,600,000
Source: 2004 World Population Data Sheet, PRB.

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Updated August 17, 2004

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