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Of approximately 904 scientific papers or panel presentations and 856 poster presentations, I’ve personally experienced only a small number. Of the 2,700 participants from scores of countries, though, I’ve been fortunate to talk with a great many—old friends and new, visitors at our PRB booth, chance encounters in the halls, and yes, the souks. </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img border="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://www.iussp.org/marrakech2009/header.jpg" height="100" width="500"/></p> <p>Seven PRB staff, three senior fellows, and five members of our Board of Trustees are here in Marrakech: </p> <p>PRB staff: Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health and Environment; Nadwa Mossaad, research associate, Domestic Programs; Nazy Roudi, program director, Middle East and North Africa; Fariyal Fikree, senior program director, Global Health; Mary Kent, senior demographic editor; and Bill Butz, president.</p> <p>Fellows: Tom Merrick, Elaine Murphy, Charlie Teller. </p> <p>Trustees: Wendy Baldwin, The Population Council; Wolfgang Lutz, Vienna Institute of Demography; Joel Cohen, Rockefeller University; Leela Visaria, independent researcher; and Martin Vaessen, ICF Macro. </p> <p>This conference is a prime opportunity to stay abreast of the science in our fields and to contribute to it. You’ll be reading—and hearing—some of the results on the PRB website in coming weeks. (And for a fascinating look back at 50 years of IUSSP conferences—how the topics, authors, and regions have changed—see <em>From Vienna to Marrakech: 50 years of Independent IUSSP Conferences, 1959-2009</em> from the Vienna Institute of Demography).</p> <p>For several days before the main conference, I participated in a workshop convened by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in collaboration with four European Research Councils: <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/index.aspx">Economic and Social Research Council </a>(UK), <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.forskningsradet.no/servlet/Satellite?c=Page&cid=1177315753906&p=1177315753906&pagename=ForskningsradetEngelsk%2FHovedsidemal">Research Council of Norway</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.equipop.org/">Equilibres et Populations </a>(France), and WROTO (Netherlands). Together with African experts, communication specialists, and other funders such as USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we considered how to communicate complex research to African policymakers in the context of an <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.poppovresearchnetwork.org/">ambitious international program </a>of economic and demographic research just now beginning to produce its first results. We moved at a fast clip. The results are a practical blueprint for action as the scientific findings come on line.</p> <p>These meeting are beautifully organized and the host government and the King have been gracious and generous. Marrakech is lovely and fascinating, and the scientific enterprise regarding population in its many contexts is vibrant.</p> </div>  <div class="addthis"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=blogohblog&url=http://prbblog.org/?p=80&title=Dispatches From the International Population Conference, Day 4" title="Bookmark using any bookmark manager!" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button"/></a></div> </div> <div class="br"><br/></div> <div id="post-79"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=79" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to More U.S. Households Receiving Food Stamps">More U.S. Households Receiving Food Stamps</a></h2> <p><small>September 29th, 2009 Mark Mather</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?cat=8" title="View all posts in Income/Poverty" rel="category">Income/Poverty</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=79#respond" title="Comment on More U.S. Households Receiving Food Stamps">No Comments »</a> </p> <div class="entry"> <p><em>by Mark Mather, associate vice president, Domestic Programs</em></p> <p><img align="left" width="197" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3392/3328819706_50dc36da87_m.jpg" height="226" style="width: 197px; height: 213px"/>Today the Census Bureau released <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/014298.html">another wave of economic data </a>that showed a 13 percent increase in U.S. households receiving food stamps between 2007 and 2008. Who saw the biggest increase? It was families with two or more workers, who made up 26.9 percent of food stamp recipients in 2007 but jumped to 28.4 of recipients in 2008. The numbers, based on new data from the <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.census.gov/acs/www/">American Community Survey </a>(ACS), provide more evidence of the recession’s wide-reaching impact, especially on lower-income working families.</p> <p>Nationwide, about 9 percent of U.S. households reported receiving food stamps in 2008, according to ACS data. But ACS respondents are known to underreport participation in the Food Stamp Program. (For more information, see this report from the<a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/ACS/FoodStampFinalReport.pdf"> Census Bureau</a>). The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, which administers the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program at the federal level, counted 12.7 million households receiving food stamps in 2008, compared with 9.8 million counted in the ACS. The latest numbers from the USDA, from June 2009, puts the number of households receiving food stamp benefits at nearly 16 million.</p> <p><em>Photo used under Creative Commons from </em><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.flickr.com/photos/7476739@N05/3328819706/"><em>Clementine Gallot.</em></a></p> </div>  <div class="addthis"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=blogohblog&url=http://prbblog.org/?p=79&title=More U.S. Households Receiving Food Stamps" title="Bookmark using any bookmark manager!" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button"/></a></div> </div> <div class="br"><br/></div> <div id="post-78"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=78" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Dispatches From the International Population Conference, Day 2">Dispatches From the International Population Conference, Day 2</a></h2> <p><small>September 29th, 2009 Nadwa Mossaad</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?cat=31" title="View all posts in PRB News" rel="category">PRB News</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=78#respond" title="Comment on Dispatches From the International Population Conference, Day 2">No Comments »</a> </p> <div class="entry"> <p><em>by Nadwa Mossaad, research associate, Domestic Programs</em></p> <p>Yesterday marked the opening ceremony of the 26th International Union for the Study of Population (IUSSP) in the ancient red city of Marrakech, located in the center of Morocco bordering the Sahara desert on the foot of the Atlas Mountains.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><img border="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://www.iussp.org/marrakech2009/header.jpg" height="100" width="500"/></p> <p>The opening ceremony was impressive, with over 2,300 participants from more than 100 countries — the largest ever in the history of IUSSP. The ceremony was marked by speeches from the International Organizing Committee’s president Ahmed lahlimi Alami, IUSSP president John Cleland, UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid, former director of UNDP’s Regional Bureau for the Arab States Rima Khalaf Hunaidi, and finally from his Majesty the King of Morocco, all highlighting the importance of demographic research in alleviating poverty, increasing education, and advancing women’s rights and human development while paying close attention to the environment and climate change.</p> <p>The meeting’s theme is as varied as the history, culture, and demography of the people of the host country this year. The discussions and presentations will range from the usual to the new and groundbreaking to the controversial, but the general sense is to discuss the challenges facing the world today and the upcoming decade, and to explore the renewed commitment of many stakeholders to appropriately address the issues.</p> </div>  <div class="addthis"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=blogohblog&url=http://prbblog.org/?p=78&title=Dispatches From the International Population Conference, Day 2" title="Bookmark using any bookmark manager!" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button"/></a></div> </div> <div class="br"><br/></div> <div id="post-77"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=77" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Dispatches From the International Population Conference, Day 1">Dispatches From the International Population Conference, Day 1</a></h2> <p><small>September 28th, 2009 Farzaneh Roudi</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?cat=31" title="View all posts in PRB News" rel="category">PRB News</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=77#respond" title="Comment on Dispatches From the International Population Conference, Day 1">No Comments »</a> </p> <div class="entry"> <p><em>by Farzaneh Roudi, program director, Middle East and North Africa</em></p> <p>Today, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.iussp.org/marrakech2009/index.php">XXVI International Population Conference of the International Union for Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) </a>opened in Marrakech, Morocco. Held once every four years, this is the first time the conference has taken place on the continent of Africa, and the first time it’s been held in an Arab country. It is also the largest-ever gathering of specialists from the Arab world and population scientists from around the world.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><img border="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://www.iussp.org/marrakech2009/header.jpg" align="middle" height="100" width="500"/></p> <p>So, it was wonderful to see many of my friends whom I found over the years in different international conferences: a Palestinian woman I first met in India, a Lebanese whom I first met in Egypt, a Sudanese I met in Jordan, and a Saudi I met in Tours, France, where the previous IUSSP conference was held four years ago.</p> <p>The first international conference I attended was in Amman, Jordan in 1993. It was the preparatory meeting of Arab region for the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) that was going to be held in Cairo the following year. The international population conference, a decennial event organized by UNFPA, was held in Cairo in September 1994 and attended by high-level policymakers from 189 countries. As a side meeting, there was a gathering of nongovernmental organizations from around the world, as a way of influencing the high-level policymaking at ICPD. </p> <p>Today, UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid was among the keynote speakers. And again, it is the first time that such a high-level official from UNFPA attended this international conference, which traditionally has been a gathering of academics. There are good reasons for Thoraya Obaid to be here. This year is the 15th anniversary of the Cairo Conference and the fact that the Executive Director is from the region (Saudi Arabia) can explain her participation and support for this conference. But more importantly, such a partnership between UNFPA, the highest policymaking body on population issues at the global level and IUSSP, the largest scientific body for the study of population, is very much welcomed.</p> </div>  <div class="addthis"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=blogohblog&url=http://prbblog.org/?p=77&title=Dispatches From the International Population Conference, Day 1" title="Bookmark using any bookmark manager!" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button"/></a></div> </div> <div class="br"><br/></div> <div id="post-76"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=76" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Recession’s Social Impact on U.S. Population">Recession’s Social Impact on U.S. Population</a></h2> <p><small>September 23rd, 2009 Eric Zuehlke</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?cat=8" title="View all posts in Income/Poverty" rel="category">Income/Poverty</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=76#respond" title="Comment on Recession’s Social Impact on U.S. Population">No Comments »</a> </p> <div class="entry"> <p><em>by Eric Zuehlke, editor</em></p> <p>Our very own Mark Mather, associate vice president of Domestic Programs, has been getting a lot of media exposure recently based on his <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.prb.org/Articles/2009/usrecessionsocialchange.aspx">recent article </a>on the social effects of the economic recession on the U.S. population on the PRB website.</p> <p>As Mark notes in his article, recent data show that the recession is having an effect beyond employment and income, affecting homeownership rates, commuting patterns, marriage rates, and migration.</p> <p>Here are some highlights:</p> <p>American Public Media, Marketplace: <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/09/22/pm-census/">Census data reflect recession effects</a></p> <p>CBS News: <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/21/national/main5328248.shtml">Census data reflects recession’s impact </a></p> <p>The New York Times: <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/us/22census.html">Census data show recession-driven changes</a></p> </div>  <div class="addthis"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=blogohblog&url=http://prbblog.org/?p=76&title=Recession’s Social Impact on U.S. Population" title="Bookmark using any bookmark manager!" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button"/></a></div> </div> <div class="br"><br/></div> <div id="post-75"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=75" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to New Data on U.S. Health Insurance Coverage">New Data on U.S. Health Insurance Coverage</a></h2> <p><small>September 11th, 2009 Mark Mather</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?cat=1" title="View all posts in Aging" rel="category">Aging</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=75#comments" title="Comment on New Data on U.S. Health Insurance Coverage">2 Comments »</a> </p> <div class="entry"> <p><em>by Mark Mather, associate vice president, Domestic Programs</em> </p> <p>The Census Bureau released new 2008 poverty and health insurance estimates today. Poverty rates are up (no surprise there), but it’s the health insurance numbers I was most interested in. In 2008, there were 46.3 million people in the United States without health insurance. That number is only slightly higher than it was in 2007, but it’s misleading to say so. In fact, the number of children without insurance dropped sharply, from 8.1 million to 7.3 million, while the number of working-age people (18 to 64) without insurance increased, from 36.8 million to 38.3 million.</p> <p>Among the working-age population, it was the part-timers who were hit the hardest. The number of part-time workers without coverage increased by more than 1 million between 2007 and 2008, the largest increase among any major population subgroup. In 2008, more than one in four part-time workers lacked health insurance, roughly the same share as those who did not work at all last year.</p> <p>An increase in the number of people covered by government insurance kept the nationwide coverage rates stable from 2007 to 2008, at around 85 percent. As reported in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/us/11poverty.html">New York Times</a>, this continues an eight-year trend of declining participation in private or employer-sponsored insurance programs and increasing participation in government-run programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and health care for the military. If we were to remove the 2008 increase in government insurance coverage, and assign those people to the “uninsured” category, then the overall health insurance coverage rate would have dropped 2 percentage points, to 83 percent.</p> </div>  <div class="addthis"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=blogohblog&url=http://prbblog.org/?p=75&title=New Data on U.S. Health Insurance Coverage" title="Bookmark using any bookmark manager!" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button"/></a></div> </div> <div class="br"><br/></div> <div id="post-74"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=74" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to New Blog on the U.S. 2010 Census">New Blog on the U.S. 2010 Census</a></h2> <p><small>September 9th, 2009 Eric Zuehlke</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Population Basics" rel="category">Population Basics</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=74#respond" title="Comment on New Blog on the U.S. 2010 Census">No Comments »</a> </p> <div class="entry"> <p><em>by Eric Zuehlke, editor</em></p> <p>It’s hard to believe, but 2010 is just around the corner. Next April, the <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://2010.census.gov/2010census/">2010 U.S. Census </a>will determine how many people live in the United States, who they are, and where they live. The Census is not only used to draw federal congressional and state legislative districts, but its data are also used to allocate more than $400 billion in federal funding, vital to state and local governments, schools, businesses, and researchers.</p> <p align="center"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3576/3644965347_e568385f5d_m.jpg"/></p> <p align="center"><em>Photo used under Creative Commons from <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencf0618/">kencf0618</a>.</em></p> <p>As the 2010 U.S. Census gets closer and final preparations get underway, the Census Project, a nonpartisan coalition committed to educating policymakers, the media, and other stakeholder organizations about the importance of an accurate census, has launched a new blog. It will be updated every Tuesday over the next year with updates as census offices open around the country, advertising campaigns begin, census forms are mailed, and a million census takers are recruited and deployed across the country. Visit the blog, written by the project’s consultant, Terri Ann Lowenthal, and the project’s co-director, Phil Sparks at <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://censusprojectblog.org/">censusprojectblog.org</a>. PRB is also highlighting developments as the 2010 Census gets closer at our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.prb.org/Topics/Census2010.aspx">PRB 2010 Census page</a>.</p> </div>  <div class="addthis"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=blogohblog&url=http://prbblog.org/?p=74&title=New Blog on the U.S. 2010 Census" title="Bookmark using any bookmark manager!" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button"/></a></div> </div> <div class="br"><br/></div> <div id="post-73"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=73" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to World Water Week and the Challenges of the Future">World Water Week and the Challenges of the Future</a></h2> <p><small>August 21st, 2009 Jason Bremner</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?cat=4" title="View all posts in Environment" rel="category">Environment</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=73#respond" title="Comment on World Water Week and the Challenges of the Future">No Comments »</a> </p> <div class="entry"> <p><em>by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment</em></p> <p>This week is World Water Week, and an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.worldwaterweek.org/">international conference </a>in Stockholm, Sweden is focusing on the converging challenges that characterize the world’s growing water crisis. Unfortunately I’m not participating in the meeting this week, though the humidity here in Washington DC certainly makes it feel like water week. </p> <p>Looking at the program for World Water Week, what I find most interesting, and what I see as one of the great challenges of the coming decade is meeting the water and sanitation needs of people living in small cities and towns of developing countries. Safe drinking water and improved sanitation are among the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.undp.org/mdg/basics.shtml">Millennium Development Goal </a>targets and are the two most important means of reducing infant mortality from diarrheal disease, one the leading causes of death of infants worldwide.</p> <p>Global demographic trends illustrate the challenge effectively. The image below links to <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://graphs.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly=2003;lb=f;il=t;fs=11;al=30;stl=t;st=t;nsl=t;se=t$wst;tts=C$ts;sp=6;ti=2007$zpv;v=0$inc_x;mmid=XCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj1jiMAkmq1iMg;by=ind$inc_y;mmid=YCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj2tPLxKvvnNPA;by=ind$inc_s;uniValue=8.21;iid=phAwcNAVuyj0XOoBL_n5tAQ;by=ind$inc_c;uniValue=255;gid=CATID0;by=grp$map_x;scale=log;dataMin=194;dataMax=96846$map_y;scale=lin;dataMin=23;dataMax=86$map_s;sma=49;smi=2.65$cd;bd=0$inds=#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly=2003;lb=f;il=t;fs=11;al=30;stl=t;st=t;nsl=t;se=t$wst;tts=C$ts;sp=6;ti=2006$zpv;v=0$inc_x;mmid=XCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj1jiMAkmq1iMg;by=ind$inc_y;mmid=YCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj0%2DLE4StzCsEw;by=ind$inc_s;uniValue=8.21;iid=phAwcNAVuyj0XOoBL%5Fn5tAQ;by=ind$inc_c;uniValue=255;gid=CATID0;by=grp$map_x;scale=log;dataMin=194;dataMax=96846$map_y;scale=lin;dataMin=2;dataMax=100$map_s;sma=41;smi=2.65$cd;bd=0$inds=i163_d001960cfa6">a graph </a>showing the urbanization and income trends for every country in the world from 1960 to 2006 using <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://graphs.gapminder.org/">Gapminder.org’s </a>innovative Trendalyzer web application. On the vertical axis is the percentage of a country’s population that lives in an urban area. On the horizontal axis is income per capita. Press the play button after linking through to the graph and watch how countries of the world gradually become more urban as per capita income increases. </p> <p>Notice, however, that many of the dark blue countries of the world, which represent sub-Saharan Africa have become more urban over time with little corresponding increase in income. I’ve highlighted Nigeria, the country with the largest population in Africa, as an example of this trend.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://graphs.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly=2003;lb=f;il=t;fs=11;al=30;stl=t;st=t;nsl=t;se=t$wst;tts=C$ts;sp=6;ti=2007$zpv;v=0$inc_x;mmid=XCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj1jiMAkmq1iMg;by=ind$inc_y;mmid=YCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj2tPLxKvvnNPA;by=ind$inc_s;uniValue=8.21;iid=phAwcNAVuyj0XOoBL_n5tAQ;by=ind$inc_c;uniValue=255;gid=CATID0;by=grp$map_x;scale=log;dataMin=194;dataMax=96846$map_y;scale=lin;dataMin=23;dataMax=86$map_s;sma=49;smi=2.65$cd;bd=0$inds=#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly=2003;lb=f;il=t;fs=11;al=30;stl=t;st=t;nsl=t;se=t$wst;tts=C$ts;sp=6;ti=2006$zpv;v=0$inc_x;mmid=XCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj1jiMAkmq1iMg;by=ind$inc_y;mmid=YCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj0%2DLE4StzCsEw;by=ind$inc_s;uniValue=8.21;iid=phAwcNAVuyj0XOoBL%5Fn5tAQ;by=ind$inc_c;uniValue=255;gid=CATID0;by=grp$map_x;scale=log;dataMin=194;dataMax=96846$map_y;scale=lin;dataMin=2;dataMax=100$map_s;sma=41;smi=2.65$cd;bd=0$inds=i163_d001960cfa6"><img border="0" width="449" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://www.internetartizans.co.uk/files/images/gapminder.img_assist_custom.jpg" height="316" style="width: 330px; height: 205px"/></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>Click on the image to view trends in urbanization and income from 1960 to 2006.</em></p> <p>Nigeria defines urban areas as, “towns with at least 20,000 inhabitants, engaged mostly in non-agricultural work,” and the United Nations Population Division now estimates that approximately 50 percent of Nigeria’s population of around 150 million lives in urban areas. Urban areas constitute both an opportunity and a challenge for meeting water and sanitation needs. Services per capita are cheaper to provide and serve a far larger population. At the same time, the failure to provide services for concentrated populations can lead to massive exposures to pollutants and diarrheal disease. </p> <p>While urban populations tend to have better access to safe water and sanitation, the provision of these basic services in the growing number of small towns and cities of developing countries is a great challenge in the context of little growth in per capita income, limited infrastructure investment, and centralized government services. In Nigeria, for example, access to improved water services has shown no improvement over the last two decades, and remains just under 50 percent of the total population or more than 75 million people living without safe drinking water. </p> <p style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://graphs.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly=2003;lb=f;il=t;fs=11;al=30;stl=t;st=t;nsl=t;se=t$wst;tts=C$ts;sp=6;ti=2006$zpv;v=0$inc_x;mmid=XCOORDS;iid=pyj6tScZqmEd98lRwrU3gIg;by=ind$inc_y;mmid=YCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj0-LE4StzCsEw;by=ind$inc_s;uniValue=8.21;iid=phAwcNAVuyj0XOoBL_n5tAQ;by=ind$inc_c;uniValue=255;gid=CATID0;by=grp$map_x;scale=lin;dataMin=4;dataMax=100$map_y;scale=lin;dataMin=2;dataMax=100$map_s;sma=41;smi=2.65$cd;bd=0$inds=i163_d001960cfa6#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly=2003;lb=f;il=t;fs=11;al=30;stl=t;st=t;nsl=t;se=t$wst;tts=C$ts;sp=6;ti=2004$zpv;v=0$inc_x;mmid=XCOORDS;iid=pyj6tScZqmEd98lRwrU3gIg;by=ind$inc_y;mmid=YCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj0%2DLE4StzCsEw;by=ind$inc_s;uniValue=8.21;iid=phAwcNAVuyj0XOoBL%5Fn5tAQ;by=ind$inc_c;uniValue=255;gid=CATID0;by=grp$map_x;scale=lin;dataMin=4;dataMax=100$map_y;scale=lin;dataMin=2;dataMax=100$map_s;sma=41;smi=2.65$cd;bd=0$inds=i163_d001990cfa6"><img border="0" width="449" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://www.internetartizans.co.uk/files/images/gapminder.img_assist_custom.jpg" height="316" style="width: 330px; height: 205px"/></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>Click on the image to view trends in access to improved water services in Nigeria.</em></p> <p>Some discussions at World Water Week are focused specifically on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.worldwaterweek.org/sa/node.asp?node=471&selEvent=&selTheme=12&selYear=&filter=1&txbFreeText=&selRegion=&sa_content_url=%2Fplugins%2FEventFinder%2Fevent.asp&id=1&event=41">water and sanitation service delivery in small towns </a>and more broadly on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.worldwaterweek.org/sa/node.asp?node=471&selEvent=&selTheme=9&selYear=&filter=1&txbFreeText=&selRegion=&sa_content_url=%2Fplugins%2FEventFinder%2Fevent.asp&id=1&event=55">sanitation in urban areas of developing countries</a>, and I look forward to reading more about the case studies and innovative approaches that are discussed. If you know about innovative projects focused on delivering water and sanitation services to urban areas of developing countries I would love to learn about them, or if you think I’m wrong to focus on the challenge of urban areas given poorer access to water and sanitation in rural areas, let me hear your thoughts.</p> </div>  <div class="addthis"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=blogohblog&url=http://prbblog.org/?p=73&title=World Water Week and the Challenges of the Future" title="Bookmark using any bookmark manager!" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button"/></a></div> </div> <div class="br"><br/></div> <div id="post-72"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=72" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to World Population Data Sheet 2009 - 7 Billion People by 2011">World Population Data Sheet 2009 - 7 Billion People by 2011</a></h2> <p><small>August 13th, 2009 Eric Zuehlke</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?cat=31" title="View all posts in PRB News" rel="category">PRB News</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Population Basics" rel="category">Population Basics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?cat=13" title="View all posts in Youth" rel="category">Youth</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=72#comments" title="Comment on World Population Data Sheet 2009 - 7 Billion People by 2011">2 Comments »</a> </p> <div class="entry"> <p><em>by Eric Zuehlke, editor</em></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2009/2009wpds.aspx"><img border="0" align="left" width="117" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/mhtml:file://C:\Documents and Settings\ezuehlke\My Documents\Blog\Behind the Numbers The PRB blog on population, health, and the environment » Blog Archive » World Population Data Sheet 2009 - 7 Billion People by 2011.mht!http://www.prb.org/images09/WPDS09-HPthumb.jpg" height="134"/></a></p> <p>On August 12, PRB launched the annual <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2009/2009wpds.aspx"><em>World Population Data Sheet</em> </a>and accompanying <em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.prb.org/Publications/PopulationBulletins/2009/worldpopulationhighlights2009.aspx">Population Bulletin</a></em> in Washington, DC, highlighting country, regional, and global population, health, and environment data and patterns. This year’s data sheet places special emphasis on youth.</p> <p>The share of world’s youth population is growing in Africa and shrinking in More Developed Countries (MDCs). In 1950, 9 percent of the world’s youth lived in Africa and 30 percent lived in MDCs (Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan). By 2050, that share will change to 29 percent in Africa and 11 percent in the MDCs. “The great bulk of today’s 1.2 billion youth—nearly 90 percent—are in developing countries,” said Carl Haub, PRB senior demographer and co-author of the data sheet. Eight in 10 of those youth live in Africa and Asia. “During the next few decades, these young people will most likely continue the current trend of moving from rural areas to cities in search of education and training opportunities, gainful employment, and adequate health care.” With the right investments in health, education, agricutlural develomment, and entrepreneurship, a large youth population can be an opportunity for development and change. However, these investments are not being made in many countries. The fundamental question facing many developing countries is whether the needs of their large youth populations will be met. The answer to this question will largely determine the development, stability, and future of developing countries. </p> <p>The data sheet shows just how stark the contrasts are between rich and poor countries in terms of population growth, life expectancy, income, and other indicators. Stay tuned for a webcast on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.prb.org/">prb.org</a> of the data sheet launch at the National Press Club over the next week.</p> <p>We welcome your comments, input, questions on our findings and the implications of this on the world’s future. </p> <p>Here are just a few stories on the data sheet launch from around the world:</p> <p><strong>CNN:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/12/world.population/index.html">World population projected to reach 7 billion in 2011</a></p> <p><strong>The New York Times DotEarth:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/a-billion-teenagers-for-better-or-worse/">A billion teenagers, for better or worse</a></p> <p><strong>National Post:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/08/12/world-population-to-hit-7-billion-by-2011-report.aspx">World population to hit 7 billion by 2011: report</a></p> <p><strong>Daily Dispatch (South Africa):</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=336510">Africa Will Battle for Resources</a></p> <p><strong>Xinhua (China):</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/13/content_11872124.htm"><font color="#551a8b">Global population to hit 7 billion in 2011: US report</font></a></p> <p><strong>Pravda (Russia): </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://newsfromrussia.com/russia/economics/13-08-2009/108831-population-0">Russian Population To Reduce to 110 Million by 2050 </a></p> <p><strong>The Sofia Echo (Bulgaria): </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.sofiaecho.com/2009/08/13/769612_world-population-to-reach-94-billion-by-2050-report-says">World population to reach 9.4 billion by 2050, report says</a></p> <p><strong>The Sun (Malaysia):</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=36902">US teen birth rates higher than rest of developed world </a></p> </div>  <div class="addthis"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=blogohblog&url=http://prbblog.org/?p=72&title=World Population Data Sheet 2009 - 7 Billion People by 2011" title="Bookmark using any bookmark manager!" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button"/></a></div> </div> <div class="br"><br/></div> <div id="post-71"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=71" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Fertility Rise for Richest and Climate Change Revisited">Fertility Rise for Richest and Climate Change Revisited</a></h2> <p><small>August 7th, 2009 Jason Bremner</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?cat=4" title="View all posts in Environment" rel="category">Environment</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Population Basics" rel="category">Population Basics</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://prbblog.org/?p=71#comments" title="Comment on Fertility Rise for Richest and Climate Change Revisited">3 Comments »</a> </p> <div class="entry"> <p><em>by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment</em> </p> <p>Andy Revkin’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/fertility-rise-for-richest-boon-or-trouble/">post this week </a>on The New York Times’ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/">DotEarth blog </a>highlights a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7256/edsumm/e090806-10.html">recent paper </a>published in <em>Nature</em> that indicates that countries with the highest Human Development Index are seeing rises in fertility. Revkin asks if this is a boon or trouble, and refers specifically to what impact rising fertility among the richest countries might have on climate change.</p> <p>At first glance, the article suggests a fundamental change in our understanding of the relationship between fertility and development. However, the United Nations Population Division’s (UNPD) medium projections for world population already account for an increase in fertility among developed countries. The medium variant projection, which would put world population at about 9 billion by 2050 assumes that fertility in more developed countries will increase from a low level of 1.56 in the 1990’s to 1.8 by 2050. The world population projections are an aggregation of individual country level projections based on the most recent census and the best available data on fertility, mortality, and migration trends. Even for countries that have continued to experience fertility declines, such as Japan and Canada, the UNPD medium variant projection assumes an eventual reversal of the trend and an increase in fertility. More information about these assumptions can be found on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://esa.un.org/unpp/index.asp?panel=4">UNPD’s website</a>.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/2446411820_af21325836_m.jpg"/></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>Photo used under Creative Commons from </em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.flickr.com/photos/naoyafujii/"><em>naoyafujii</em></a></p> <p>As for the second part of the question (how will this increase impact the environment and specifically climate change), there is already quite a bit of research on the link between population and climate change, and population projections are already one of the backbones of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.ipcc.ch/">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s </a>(IPCC) carbon emissions <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/sres/emission/index.php?idp=0">scenarios.</a> The IPCC actually uses the UNPD’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/sres/emission/index.php?idp=56">medium variant population projections </a>in their emissions scenarios, which suggests that the observed fertility increase among the most developed countries of the world is already accounted for in current scenarios. </p> <p align="left">A more important question, however, is whether the consideration of population growth alone is adequate in current IPCC scenarios. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091006021630/http://www.populationaction.org/Publications/Working_Papers/April_2009/Summary.shtml">Research summarized </a>by Population Action International suggests that age composition, the urban and rural distribution of a population, and the number of households as well as the number of people living in each household all have an impact on emissions. For example, estimates of carbon emissions in China are 45 percent greater if aging and urbanization trends are considered in scenarios in combination with population size, while in the United States, aging results in reduced emissions scenarios. </p> <p>Instead of asking whether rises in fertility in the most developed countries is a boon or trouble, perhaps we should examine what other types of demographic shifts are occurring and how these affect the environment. Are aging, urbanization, and household size affecting climate change more than fertility rates? 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