.... All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California Charles Kenny Africa Millennium Development Goals poverty education water child mortality aid 195 PERSPECTIVE In 2000, to great fanfare, the United Nations agreed to the Millennium Declaration a state-ment...

... India demography fertility China Pakistan mortality economy 143 Indian policy makers have a decisive role to play in capturing the beneficial potential implicit in their country s demographic trajectory. India s Baby Boomers: Dividend or Disaster? davId e. Bloom India s population more than...

... Caribbean Brazil fertility Mexico Colombia Argentina mortality 75 The next 40 years . . . are projected to witness a veritable explosion in the number and proportion of older people in the region. Prepared or Not, Latin America Faces the Challenge of Aging GeoRGe w. leeSon The world is aging...

...Nicholas Eberstadt How could a literate European country with a traditionally strong technical and scientific base gradually but inexorably retrogress toward a Third World mortality profile? © 2010 Current History. All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California...

... mortality fertility migrants birth rate gender imbalance 244 China s population is likely to peak less than 15 years from now, below a maxi- mum of 1.4 billion. After that will come a prolonged, even indefinite, population decline and a period of accelerated aging. China s Population Destiny...