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Demography -- Wikipedia

In the News . . .

• Human Life Span Took Huge Jump in Past Century -- Live Science (15 October 2012)
  
  
• "Seventy-two Is the New 30": Why Are We Living So Much Longer? -- National Geographic News (16 October 2012)
  
  
• The Dead Outnumber the Living (Infographic) -- Live Science (07 February 2012)
  
  See also BBC News Science and Environment

• American Migration -- Forbes
  
  
• Autosomal Resequence Data Reveal Late Stone Age Signals of Population Expansion in Sub-Saharan African Foraging and Farming Populations -- PLoS ONE (28 July 2009)
  
  
• Be A Demographer -- NOVA
  
  
• Breastfeeding Saved Babies in 19th Century Montreal -- ScienceDaily (20 December 2011)
  
  
• Brown, Lester R. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. NY: W.W. Norton, 2012.
  
  
• Demographic Statistics -- UNdata
  
  
• Few Grandparents Until 30,000 Years Ago -- Telegraph (20 July 2011)
  
  
• Global Footprint Network
  
  
• Global Population Reaches 7 Billion: Can We Really Feed the World? -- Telegraph (25 October 2011)
  
  
• The Great American Migration Slowdown: Regional and Metropolitan Dimensions -- William H. Frey, Brookings Institution
  
  
• How Do You Count 7 Billion People? -- LiveScience (19 August 2011)
  
  
• Human Numbers Through Time -- World in the Balance, NOVA
  
  
• Human Population Expanded During Late Stone Age -- ScienceDaily (28 July 2009)
  
  
• OECD Factbook eXplorer -- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  
  
• Pimentel, David and Marcia Pimentel. Food, Energy, and Society, Third Edition. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 2008.
  
  
• Population -- United Nations Global Issues
  
  
• Population: Europe's Problems Will Grow As It Shrinks -- New Scientist (29 July 2009)
  
  
• Roman-era babies killed at birth — but why? -- MSNBC (13 September 2011)
  
  
• Seven Billion Humans: Technology Has Saved Us Before, and Can Do So Again -- Telegraph 31 October 2011)
  
  
• State of World Population 2008 -- United Nations Population Fund
  
  

• The State of the World's Refugees 2006 -- UNHCR
  
  
• UNdata
  
  
• Urban Population Explosion -- Live Science (13 September 2011)
  
  
• US Census: Hispanics outnumber blacks in metro areas -- BBCNews (14 April 2011)
  
  
• The World at Seven Billion -- BBC News (25 October 2011)
  • The World at Seven Billion: What's Your Number? -- BBC News (26 October 2011)
    
    
• World Population: A National Geographic Tour -- Wired (31 October 2011)
  
  
• World Population Not Only Grows, But Grows Old -- Washington Post (30 October 2011)
  
  
• World Population Prospects -- UNdata
  
  
• Yearbook of the United Nations