Author: Committee on Population

Recent years have seen a growing tendency for social scientists to collect biological specimens such as blood, urine, and saliva as part of large-s...

Sociality, Hierarchy, Health: Comparative Biodemography is a collection of papers that examine cross-species comparisons of social environments wit...

Scientific evidence shows that most glaciers in South Asia's Hindu Kush Himalayan region are retreating, but the consequences for the region's wate...

The Earth's population, currently 7.2 billion, is expected to rise at a rapid rate over the next 40 years. Current projections state that the Earth...

Fertility rates and population growth influence economic development. The marked declines in fertility seen in some developing nations have been ac...

Recent demographic trends in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region will shape the growth and age composition of its populations for decades...

Sharing research data on public health issues can promote expanded scientific inquiry and has the potential to advance improvements in public healt...

The environment for women's health has changed over the last 25 years. Increased use of automobiles can lead to health risks from lack of physical ...

The aging population of the United States has significant implications for the workforce - challenging what it means to work and to retire in the U...

Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences examines how to update human subje...

Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death is the summary of two workshops conducted by The Committee on Population of the National Research...

Note: This is the French translation of Recent Fertility Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fertility rates and population growth influence economic dev...

During the last 25 years, life expectancy at age 50 in the United States has been rising, but at a slower pace than in many other high-income count...

Since around 1980, fewer Americans than before are doing better than their parents had that is, more are experiencing downward social and economic...

Among the poorest and least developed regions in the world, sub-Saharan Africa has long faced a heavy burden of disease, with malaria, tuberculosis...

Between 1980 and mid-2023, 232 billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, with the number of disasters doubling annually sinc...

The U.S. population is aging. Social Security projections suggest that between 2013 and 2050, the population aged 65 and over will almost double, f...

Over the past several decades, fertility rates have fallen substantially in low- and middle-income countries, and efforts to limit fertility, prima...

The United States prides itself on being a nation of immigrants, and the country has a long history of successfully absorbing people from across th...

In 1950 men and women in the United States had a combined life expectancy of 68.9 years, the 12th highest life expectancy at birth in the world. To...

The aging of the population of the United States is occurring at a time of major economic and social changes. These economic changes include consid...

Structural racism refers to the public and private policies, institutional practices, norms, and cultural representations that inherently create un...

The increase in prevalence and visibility of sexually gender diverse (SGD) populations illuminates the need for greater understanding of the ways i...

In 2018, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated 70.8 million people could be considered forced migrants, which is nearly doubl...