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Africa Aging: 2020
Between 2020 and 2050, the older African population is projected to triple from 74 million to 235 million. Its growth will outpace any other world region.
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Trends of Health and Well-being of Older Population in SAGE Countries
This report uses SAGE Wave 2 data and provides information on health and well-being outcomes for older population in Ghana, Mexico, and South Africa.
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An Aging World: 2015
This report examines the world’s population aged 65 and over, including demographic and socioeconomic trends for both developed and less developed countries.
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Cross-Country Study of Health and Well-Being of Older Populations
The world’s population is aging, primarily as a function of declining fertility, coupled with increasing life expectancy.
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An Aging World: 2008
Fertility decline together with urbanization were the dominant global demographic trends during the second half of the twentieth century.
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HIV/AIDS Surveillance Country Profiles
HIV/AIDS Profile Demographic Indicators for different countries
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Health and Health Care of the Older Population in China: 2000
This report discusses the health and health care of the older population in Urban and Rural China in 2000.
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Population Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa: Demographic Dimensions 2006
Population aging will become an increasingly important demographic dynamic affecting families and societies throughout the world in the coming decades.
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The AIDS Pandemic in the 21st Century
At the beginning of the 21st century, HIV, which causes AIDS, continues to have its greatest impact in the developing world.
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Global Population at a Glance: 2002 and Beyond
This brief highlights several of the most important global population trends in 2002 and describes the continuation and impacts of these trends through 2050.
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Global Population Profile: 2002
Global Population Profile: 2002 summarizes the most important trends in global population at the dawn of the 21st century.
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An Aging World: 2001
This report examines the world’s population aged 65 and over, including demographic and socioeconomic trends for both developed and less developed countries.
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Population Trends: Peru
Peru, one of Latin America's largest nations, is home to over 26 million people.
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World Population Profile: 1998
This report presents the U.S. Census Bureau's latest update of population estimates and prohections for all the countries and regions of the world.
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World Population at a Glance: 1998 and Beyond
World population increase gradually slowing but total to hit 9 billion in next 50 years.
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Women and the Economy in India
India's economy has undergone a substantial transformation since the country's independence in 1947.
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Gender and Aging: Caregiving
The typical image of caregiving and the elderly is one of an older person who is ill or infirm receiving care from a younger person.
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Women's Health in India
India is one of the few countries in the world where women and men have nearly the same life expectancy at birth.
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Women's Education in India
The Indian government has expressed a strong commitment towards education for all, however, India still has one of the lowest female literacy rates in Asia.
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Gender and Aging: Mortality and Health
Countries around the world are in the midst of demographic aging.
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Russia's New Problem — Poverty
Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, that country's economic and social system worked in a practical sense.
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Population Trends: Bolivia
The total fertility rate has declined by a third since 1970.
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Aging in the Americas into the XXI century
The term "demographic transition" refers to a gradual process whereby a society moves from a situation of high to lower rates of fertility.
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Gender and Aging: Demographic Dimensions
The UN's Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 prepared a platform that provides an analysis of obstacles facing the world's women.
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Aging Trends: South Africa
Concern about population in Africa traditionally has focussed on relatively high rates of fertility and mortality…
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Population Trends: India
Each year India adds more people to the world's population than any other country.
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Planning for the 2000 Round of Population and Housing Censuses
Planners and decision makers worldwide face a common problem: the lack of high-quality and timely statistics to identify needs.
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Population Trends: Russia
While recent Russian demographic trends reflect the country's current economic and social malaise, they also continue to reveal the shocks experienced…
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World Population at a Glance: 1996 and Beyond
The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in C airo focused the world's attention.
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Population Trends: Ghana
Ghana, one of the most populous countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, is home to nearly 18 million people.
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1991 Census of Agriculture of the Philippines
The 1991 Census of Agriculture was a large-scale govt. operation focused on the collection and compilation of statistics on the Philippines agriculture sector.
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Trends in Adolescent Fertility and Contraceptive Use
The reproductive health of adolescents is an area designated in need of special attention in USAID's statement of objectives, approach, and program priorities
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Population Trends Philippines
In this report to the 1994 ICPD, the Commission on Population sets out the rationale for the govts continued concern with and attention to reproductive health.
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Global Aging into the 21st Century
The size of the world's elderly population has been growing for centuries.
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Older Workers, Retirement, and Pensions: A International Chartbook
This report provides international statistics on trends that affect old-age security and the status of older workers, retirement trends, and pension systems.
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Old Age Security Reform in China
China is undertaking a major revamping of its old age security system.
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