Unit 2: Population and Migration

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Why These Chinese Working Mothers Don’t Want More BabiesWe spoke to three women who have rejected the government’s drive for bigger families and asked them to document their daily lives as they juggle home and the workplace.

‘Too many old people’: A rural Pa. town reckons with population lossThere is a deepening sense of fear as population loss accelerates in rural America. The decline of small-town life is expected to be a looming topic in the presidential election.

Debunking Baby Boomer MythsA careful look at the data on baby boomers dispels misconceptions about their characteristics and enables policymakers to accurately assess the potential implications of their aging and retirement for U.S. society and the economy.

J and S Curve

4.1 million migrants: Where they’re from, where they live in the U.S.We analyzed more than 4.1 million U.S. immigration court records amid debates about the U.S.-Mexico border, which often omit what happens to migrants who stay.

Population pyramids: Powerful predictors of the future - Kim PreshoffPopulation statistics are like crystal balls -- when examined closely, they can help predict a country’s future (and give important clues about the past). Kim Preshoff explains how using a visual tool called a population pyramid helps policymakers and social scientists make sense of the statistics, using three different countries' pyramids as examples.

Doubling Time

The magic washing machineWhat was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading.

Visualizing How A Population Hits 7 BillionThe U.N. says today symbolically marks the moment when the world's population reaches 7 billion. A little more than two centuries ago, the global population was 1 billion. How did it grow so big so fast? With the help of a sound montage and video, it gets a bit easier to see how the Earth can produce that kind of a crowd.

Global population growth, box by boxThe world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you'll see).

Five graphics that show what the new U.N. population report tells us about the futureThese five charts and maps highlight key points from the report released Thursday.

www.gapminder.org/videos/religions-and-babies/

Demographic Transition Model

The 2024 Largest Cities in the World by PopulationExplore the top 20 cities worldwide in 2024, ranked by the population size of their metropolitan areas.

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