Population Today: 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

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