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2002

Population Today: November/December 2002 (PDF: 156KB)

A Letter From PRB's President • Homeownership Rates Divide U.S. Racial and Ethnic Groups • How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? • The Health Divide in Europe • U.S. Jewish Population Aging and Shrinking • Judge Orders U.S. Census Figures Released • Speaking Graphically: Per Capita Water Use by World Region • Spotlight Statistic: Abortion Rates for Poor Women in the U.S. Increasing • Web Sitings

Population Today: October 2002 (PDF: 252KB)

Easing Urban Poverty Key to Economic Growth in Central America • Post 9/11 Baby Boom Unlikely • Increased Cohabitation Changing Children's Family Settings • Sweden Reduces Gap in UNFPA Funding • Illiteracy in the Information Age • No Longer in the Driver's Seat • Marriages Down Under • Speaking Graphically: U.S. High School Exit Exams • Spotlight Statistic: Illiteracy Worldwide • Web Sitings

Population Today: August/September 2002 (PDF: 410KB)

Tracking the Trends in Low-Income Working Families • U.S. Census Shows Different Path for Domestic and Foreign-Born Migrants • Mountains: Sources of Water, Sites of Poverty and War • Has Global Growth Reached Its Peak? • For Botswana, No Easy Answers in Dealing With Burgeoning AIDS Epidemic • Graying Canada Welcomes Immigrants • Pakistant Announces New Population Policy • Counting on Condoms • Naturalization Requests Up in U.S. After 9/11 • Speaking Graphically: Obesity Among Adults in OECD Countries • Spotlight Statistic: Unemployment in the Arab Region • Web Sitings

Population Today: July 2002 (PDF: 151KB)

Affirmative Action Alternative Put to the Test in Texas • Shotgun Weddings a Sign of the Times in Japan • Population Growth Continues to Hinder Nepal’s Economic Progress • Brazilians Urged to Sport the National Colors • Refugees in Limbo • Unregistered Births • Speaking Graphically: Contraceptive Use Worldwide, Late 1990s • Spotlight Statistic: Poverty in the United States, 1999 • Web Sitings

Population Today: May/June 2002 (PDF: 297KB)

Fertility Down, but Population Decline Still Not in Sight • Out of the Closet and Onto the Census Long Form • Census-Taking and the Invisibility of Urban American Indians • Short Work Lives, Long Retirements Make Saving Difficult • Iran Achieves Replacement-Level Fertility • Australia Drafts Population Plan • Older People Vulnerable to HIV/AIDS • Cost of Underemployed Immigrants to Canada's Economy Quantified • European Commission Calls for More Work, More Babies • Speaking Graphically: Declining School Enrollment in Africa • Spotlight Statistic: U.S. Children With Difficulty Speaking English • Web Sitings

Population Today: April 2002 (PDF: 570KB)

Boomers' Retirement Wave Likely to Begin in Just 6 Years • Recession Pounds U.S. Hispanics • Making Maps: The Untold Story • Women in U.S., France Having More Children • Argentine Jews Head to Isreal • Dengue and Urbanization in Latin America • Fingerprinting Asylum Seekers in Europe • Bride Burning in Fiji? • Speaking Graphically: Foreign-Born Make Up Growing Segment of U.S. Black Population • Spotlight Statistic: Demographic Winners of the 2002 Olympics • Web Sitings

Population Today: February/March 2002 (PDF: 221KB)

Harmonizing Immigration and Refugee Policy Between the U.S. and Canada • Migrant Street Children on the Rise in Central America • Young Women in Sub-Saharan Africa Face a High Risk of HIV Infection • The Gender-Environment Dynamic • A Spiraling Shortage of Nurses • China’s One-Child Policy Becomes Law • NARAL Rates States on Contraceptive Access • Sanctions Threatened for Zimbabwe • U.S. Population Estimates for 2001 • Speaking Graphically: Asylum-Seeking in Selected OECD Countries • Spotlight Statistic: No Decrease in Fertility Rate for Mali • Web Sitings

Population Today: January 2002 (PDF: 203KB)

U.S. Elder Care Is in a Fragile State • Human Trafficking Exposed • Jobs Needed for a Billion-Plus Youth • Premarital HIV Testing for Muslims in Malaysia • Guatemala Introduces Reproductive Health Law • "Banning Condoms Kills" • Children in Post-Soviet Poverty • Speaking Graphically: Science Scores of U.S. Students, by Race/Ethnicity • Spotlight Statistic: AIDS Increases Child Mortality Rates • Web Sitings