World Fertility Patterns 2015 Data Booklet


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This data booklet summarises and presents key fertility indicators on world fertility patterns from the latest population estimates and projections, World Population Prospects 2015. The relevant data and evidence are made available in an easily accessible manner.




Research Awards Index


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Genomics and Health in the Developing World


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Readership: Geneticists and clinicians worldwide in addition to graduate students and researchers interested in populations and genomics




Health and Mortality


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Nineteen papers from the November, 1997 symposium examine three major issues in health and mortality: the measurement of mortality and health status, the state of current knowledge about the evolution of mortality and health in various economies, and the analysis of risk factors associated with specific behaviors that may account for growing proportions of death. Also published in Belgium under the same title by the Population and Family Study Center (CBGS) in March 1999. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.




Human Capital


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Covers issues of demography and development in the Middle East, the capital value of rising populations, the workings of the labor market, and the impact of migration and urbanization on the region.