This site provides data on life expectancy, total fertility rates, crude birth rate and death rates of all countries. There are also links to related information.

Information on births of babies with Down Syndrome in Illinois. Information is present by county.

Read about how the fabric of the nation was changed during the Great Depression. See how the institutions of life--marriage, birth rates, education, public health--all saw disruption because of the compromised economy.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how rates of birth, death, immigration, and emigration affect population growth.

Breathing Earth layers data about rates of carbon dioxide emission along with birth and death rates onto a map of the world in a real-time simulation of one of the principal greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere, CO2.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What does population growth mean? You can probably guess that it means the number of individuals in a population is increasing. The population growth rate tells you...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the four stages of demographic transition.

A short site dealing with the people of El Salvador. Gives population, growth rate, age structure, birth and death rates, ethnic divisions, religion, life expectancy, literacy rate, etc. Information from 1995.

This site provides brief factual statistics about the population of Venezuela from 2002 including the average age, birth and death rates of the people in addition to other general population statistics.

A news article explaining how Mexico's population is expected to increase among elders and decrease in relation to children because fertility rates have decreased over the past 25 years.

In this comprehensive interactive tutorial you will learn how scientists measure the occurrence of disease and track the distribution of disease while trying to analyze patterns of illness.

Detailed geographical information on any country is available at this site. Within the World Map section, you can get facts and figures about each country's geography, demographics, government, political system, flags, historical and...

Through interactive activities, reading assignments, and offline assignments, students explore the dynamics of human population.

This interactive website is a lesson for students in determining the factors that divide developed and developing countries. Major health issues of each are also included. Archived.

Excellent site about the people of Nicaragua, population, age structure, growth rate, death and birth rate, life expectancy, ethnic divisions, literacy, and more.

"Welcome to Puerto Rico" provides an extensively detailed page that describes the population density of Puerto Rico. Information is given about birth rates, death rates, and even cause of death percentages.

This is the official home of Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth), a non-profit organization focused on slowing population growth. This site offers current information on government legislation and policy in this...

This blog article discusses population growth in the context of wealth, poverty, women's rights and birth control.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the four stages of demographic transition.

An excellent interactive review from Palomar College of population growth and how it can be described. Try out the interactive calculators of population size.

This fact sheet from the non-profit organization Population Connection addresses the problem of overpopulation as the Earth approaches 7 billion residents. Includes statistics and details the reasons why many experts are concerned about...

Explore growth patterns in wildlife populations.

This article describes tools ecologists use to describe the present state of a population and predict its future growth.

After World War Two, many women placed a higher priority on marriage and having a family. However, this trend changed during the 1950s and by 1960 more women were attending college, working outside of the home, marrying later, and having...