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United States Census, 2010 (On going)
It may contain tentative information; the content may change as the event approaches and more information becomes available.
The Twenty-third United States Census will be the next national census in the United States. The census has been conducted every 10 years, as required by the United States Constitution, with the previous one completed in 2000.
Cost
The Government Accountability Office estimated in 2004 that the cost of the census could climb to over $11 billion. In a detailed report to Congress, it called on the Census Bureau to address cost and design issues.
Lockheed Martin -- partnering with IBM, Computer Sciences Corporation, Pearson Government Solutions, and others -- won a six-year, $500M contract to capture and standardize 2010 census data. The contract includes systems, facilities and staffing to for about a quarter of the projected $11.3B cost of the decennial census. Data collection efficiency and processing are priorities in 2010. This will be the first census to use hand-held computing devices with GPS capability.
The project will also employ approximately one million part-time employees.
External links
* 2010 Census. U.S. Census Bureau.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Census%2C_2010
Changes in human sex ratio
Usually, the sex ratio (numbers of boys born divided by the numbers of girls born) is slightly greater than one. In fact, world-wide about 106 boys are born for every 100 girls. This number is also reported as the male proportion of total births, or 106/206 = 0.514 = 51.4%.
Several researchers, however, have reported apparent recent declines in the proportion of male births, in the US, Canada, Denmark and the Netherlands. These declines have been very small but statistically significant. Fewer boys are being born than would be expected on the basis of the recent historical worldwide average.
More (http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/newscience/reproduction/sexratio/sexratio.htm)
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2005/113-10/ss.html
Male to Female Birth Ratio Reduced in U.S. and Japan (Worldwide)
While there are typically more males born in a given population than females (the ratio is usually 105 males for every 100 females), in the United States and Japan, the number of males per 100 females has been declining. Reuters reports, based on study results, that the decrease is likely due to exposure to environmental pollutants. The data shows that, "In the U.S., the proportion of boys dropped from 105.5 per 100 girls in 1970 to 104.6 in 2001; in Japan, the male-to-female ratio dropped from 106.3 boys for every 100 girls to just fewer than 105 per 100."
Tuesday April 17, 2007 | comments (3)
http://geography.about.com/b/a/257813.htm
Then in the early '80s, China began enforcing an ambitious demographic engineering policy to limit families to one-child, as part of its strategy to fast-track economic modernization. The policy resulted in a slashed annual birth rate of 1.29 percent by 2002, or the prevention of some 300 million births, and the current population of close to 1.3 billion.
‘Missing girls’
From a relatively normal ratio of 108.5 boys to 100 girls in the early 80s, the male surplus progressively rose to 111 in 1990, 116 in 2000, and is now is close to 120 boys for each 100 girls at the present time, according to a Chinese think-tank report.
The shortage of women is creating a "huge societal issue,” warned U.N. resident coordinator Khalid Malik earlier this year.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5953508
In the world today, the statistics show that there are 33 million more men than women. The purpose of this study was to find out where in the world these differences exist (only countries with a population of over 500,000 were taken into account).
The male to female ratios vary quite significantly throughout the world. Despite the fact that men outnumber women, there are a large number of countries in which the females outnumber the male population, particularly in Europe. One of the most interesting findings of the study was that the only European country to have more males than females amongst its populace is Turkey.
http://www.socyberty.com/Issues/The-imbala...male-ratio.8138 (http://www.socyberty.com/Issues/The-imbalance-of-the-male-to-female-ratio.8138)
World Population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:World_population.PNG
World population
According to estimates published by the United States Census Bureau, the world population hit 6.5 billion (6,500,000,000) on February 25, 2006, at 7:16 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. On October 18, 2012 at 4:36 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the Earth will be home to 7 billion. The United Nations Population Fund designated October 12, 1999 as the approximate day on which world population reached six billion. This was about 12 years after world population reached five billion, in 1987. However, given that the population of some countries, such as Nigeria, is not even known to the nearest million, such precise timings are essentially meaningless.
In 2007 the United Nations Population Division projected that the world's population will likely surpass 9 billion in 2050.
Countries by Population
About 4 billion of the world's 6.5 billion people live in Asia. Six of the world's ten largest countries by population are in Asia.
World population and countries with more than 100 million people Rank Country Population Density
(people/ km²)
— World 6,591,444,000 43
1 Flag of People's Republic of China China 1,317,844,000 136
2 Flag of India India 1,125,000,000 328
3 Flag of United States United States 301,574,000 30
4 Flag of Indonesia Indonesia 222,781,000 126
5 Flag of Brazil Brazil 190,000,000 22
6 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan 164,000,000 202
7 Flag of Bangladesh Bangladesh 149,900,000 1,002
8 Flag of Russia Russia 142,800,000 8
9 Flag of Nigeria Nigeria 131,530,000 139
10 Flag of Japan Japan 127,000,000 337
11 Flag of Mexico Mexico 107,000,000 54
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population#Population_control
World Fertility Rates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fertili...world_map_2.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fertility_rate_world_map_2.png)
List of countries and territories by fertility rate
This is a list of countries by total fertility rate (TFR): the expected number of children born per woman in her child-bearing years, based on 2006 age-specific fertility rate data. Sovereign states are ranked. Some countries might not be listed at this time because they are not fully recognized as countries at the time this Census.
List of sovereign states and dependent territories by fertility rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
World population density
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:World_p...density_map.PNG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:World_population_density_map.PNG)
Optimum population (On going)
Optimum population is where the amount of resources available in a country is equal to the country's population needs, so there are enough resources to maintain its population.
If it is below its optimum population then it has more resources than needed for the population, if it is above then it has too little resources to maintain its population.
To achieve optimum population, a country must change some of the following dimensions to lower or increase their fertility rate, before they can achieve optimum population. Immigration, age distribution and changes in lifespan must also be taken into account.
Achieving Optimum Population
Social and Cultural
Changing people's views and attitudes on religion to adjust it into a modern fashion, changing social attitudes, such as giving women more rights and thought in starting a large family than following tradition.
Economic
Increasing career opportunities will have peoples' minds set on education and career prospects, and maintaining their job, such that the immediate impulse to start a family might be delayed.
Also, starting a "Western way of life" in which people buy entertainment and expensive goods rather than spending large amounts of money on raising a child.
Medical and Scientific
Increasing the amount of contraception in LEDC (Less Economically Developed Country) educating adults and children about sexual education, on how to use contraception and the risks involved, persuading people to use less contraception in countries with a declining fertility rate, also to improve healthcare in some LED countries who need to increase their fertility rate.
Political
Improving education to direct people into a career, this will have people concentrate on getting a stable job rather than plan ahead on starting a family. Thus allowing outside countries and aid companies to help a country with its population problems, and also improving women's rights, moving away from tradition.
Example - China
Social and Cultural
Higher status has been given to women, so that they can get better career prospects, and have a say in planning a family, this means they can work on their career rather than plan a family straight away.
Also the government has asked couples to marry later, and asked for fewer marriages to take place, so that fewer children will be born.
Economic
The government is delivering “Glory Certificates” to any couple who have followed the "One Child" law; this gives many benefits such as lower taxes, cash rewards, and better career opportunities.
Medical and Scientific
Before a couple can marry and have children, they must go through several tests, one including a test to see if they carry and genetic or infectious diseases, to see if a child they would have will carry it on, also they must agree to a form of sterilization after their first child.[citation needed]
Political
The "One Child" policy is known all around the world, China had enforced this law to reduce its rapidly growing population, and the effects of this method will only be seen until 2040, where the population will start a steady or drastic decline.
Because of this one child policy, families tend to only want a boy to help them in the future, but this is fading out with growing job opportunities for women.
Different Countries Optimum Population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_population
It may contain tentative information; the content may change as the event approaches and more information becomes available.
The Twenty-third United States Census will be the next national census in the United States. The census has been conducted every 10 years, as required by the United States Constitution, with the previous one completed in 2000.
Cost
The Government Accountability Office estimated in 2004 that the cost of the census could climb to over $11 billion. In a detailed report to Congress, it called on the Census Bureau to address cost and design issues.
Lockheed Martin -- partnering with IBM, Computer Sciences Corporation, Pearson Government Solutions, and others -- won a six-year, $500M contract to capture and standardize 2010 census data. The contract includes systems, facilities and staffing to for about a quarter of the projected $11.3B cost of the decennial census. Data collection efficiency and processing are priorities in 2010. This will be the first census to use hand-held computing devices with GPS capability.
The project will also employ approximately one million part-time employees.
External links
* 2010 Census. U.S. Census Bureau.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Census%2C_2010
Changes in human sex ratio
Usually, the sex ratio (numbers of boys born divided by the numbers of girls born) is slightly greater than one. In fact, world-wide about 106 boys are born for every 100 girls. This number is also reported as the male proportion of total births, or 106/206 = 0.514 = 51.4%.
Several researchers, however, have reported apparent recent declines in the proportion of male births, in the US, Canada, Denmark and the Netherlands. These declines have been very small but statistically significant. Fewer boys are being born than would be expected on the basis of the recent historical worldwide average.
More (http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/newscience/reproduction/sexratio/sexratio.htm)
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2005/113-10/ss.html
Male to Female Birth Ratio Reduced in U.S. and Japan (Worldwide)
While there are typically more males born in a given population than females (the ratio is usually 105 males for every 100 females), in the United States and Japan, the number of males per 100 females has been declining. Reuters reports, based on study results, that the decrease is likely due to exposure to environmental pollutants. The data shows that, "In the U.S., the proportion of boys dropped from 105.5 per 100 girls in 1970 to 104.6 in 2001; in Japan, the male-to-female ratio dropped from 106.3 boys for every 100 girls to just fewer than 105 per 100."
Tuesday April 17, 2007 | comments (3)
http://geography.about.com/b/a/257813.htm
Then in the early '80s, China began enforcing an ambitious demographic engineering policy to limit families to one-child, as part of its strategy to fast-track economic modernization. The policy resulted in a slashed annual birth rate of 1.29 percent by 2002, or the prevention of some 300 million births, and the current population of close to 1.3 billion.
‘Missing girls’
From a relatively normal ratio of 108.5 boys to 100 girls in the early 80s, the male surplus progressively rose to 111 in 1990, 116 in 2000, and is now is close to 120 boys for each 100 girls at the present time, according to a Chinese think-tank report.
The shortage of women is creating a "huge societal issue,” warned U.N. resident coordinator Khalid Malik earlier this year.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5953508
In the world today, the statistics show that there are 33 million more men than women. The purpose of this study was to find out where in the world these differences exist (only countries with a population of over 500,000 were taken into account).
The male to female ratios vary quite significantly throughout the world. Despite the fact that men outnumber women, there are a large number of countries in which the females outnumber the male population, particularly in Europe. One of the most interesting findings of the study was that the only European country to have more males than females amongst its populace is Turkey.
http://www.socyberty.com/Issues/The-imbala...male-ratio.8138 (http://www.socyberty.com/Issues/The-imbalance-of-the-male-to-female-ratio.8138)
World Population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:World_population.PNG
World population
According to estimates published by the United States Census Bureau, the world population hit 6.5 billion (6,500,000,000) on February 25, 2006, at 7:16 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. On October 18, 2012 at 4:36 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the Earth will be home to 7 billion. The United Nations Population Fund designated October 12, 1999 as the approximate day on which world population reached six billion. This was about 12 years after world population reached five billion, in 1987. However, given that the population of some countries, such as Nigeria, is not even known to the nearest million, such precise timings are essentially meaningless.
In 2007 the United Nations Population Division projected that the world's population will likely surpass 9 billion in 2050.
Countries by Population
About 4 billion of the world's 6.5 billion people live in Asia. Six of the world's ten largest countries by population are in Asia.
World population and countries with more than 100 million people Rank Country Population Density
(people/ km²)
— World 6,591,444,000 43
1 Flag of People's Republic of China China 1,317,844,000 136
2 Flag of India India 1,125,000,000 328
3 Flag of United States United States 301,574,000 30
4 Flag of Indonesia Indonesia 222,781,000 126
5 Flag of Brazil Brazil 190,000,000 22
6 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan 164,000,000 202
7 Flag of Bangladesh Bangladesh 149,900,000 1,002
8 Flag of Russia Russia 142,800,000 8
9 Flag of Nigeria Nigeria 131,530,000 139
10 Flag of Japan Japan 127,000,000 337
11 Flag of Mexico Mexico 107,000,000 54
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population#Population_control
World Fertility Rates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fertili...world_map_2.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fertility_rate_world_map_2.png)
List of countries and territories by fertility rate
This is a list of countries by total fertility rate (TFR): the expected number of children born per woman in her child-bearing years, based on 2006 age-specific fertility rate data. Sovereign states are ranked. Some countries might not be listed at this time because they are not fully recognized as countries at the time this Census.
List of sovereign states and dependent territories by fertility rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
World population density
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:World_p...density_map.PNG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:World_population_density_map.PNG)
Optimum population (On going)
Optimum population is where the amount of resources available in a country is equal to the country's population needs, so there are enough resources to maintain its population.
If it is below its optimum population then it has more resources than needed for the population, if it is above then it has too little resources to maintain its population.
To achieve optimum population, a country must change some of the following dimensions to lower or increase their fertility rate, before they can achieve optimum population. Immigration, age distribution and changes in lifespan must also be taken into account.
Achieving Optimum Population
Social and Cultural
Changing people's views and attitudes on religion to adjust it into a modern fashion, changing social attitudes, such as giving women more rights and thought in starting a large family than following tradition.
Economic
Increasing career opportunities will have peoples' minds set on education and career prospects, and maintaining their job, such that the immediate impulse to start a family might be delayed.
Also, starting a "Western way of life" in which people buy entertainment and expensive goods rather than spending large amounts of money on raising a child.
Medical and Scientific
Increasing the amount of contraception in LEDC (Less Economically Developed Country) educating adults and children about sexual education, on how to use contraception and the risks involved, persuading people to use less contraception in countries with a declining fertility rate, also to improve healthcare in some LED countries who need to increase their fertility rate.
Political
Improving education to direct people into a career, this will have people concentrate on getting a stable job rather than plan ahead on starting a family. Thus allowing outside countries and aid companies to help a country with its population problems, and also improving women's rights, moving away from tradition.
Example - China
Social and Cultural
Higher status has been given to women, so that they can get better career prospects, and have a say in planning a family, this means they can work on their career rather than plan a family straight away.
Also the government has asked couples to marry later, and asked for fewer marriages to take place, so that fewer children will be born.
Economic
The government is delivering “Glory Certificates” to any couple who have followed the "One Child" law; this gives many benefits such as lower taxes, cash rewards, and better career opportunities.
Medical and Scientific
Before a couple can marry and have children, they must go through several tests, one including a test to see if they carry and genetic or infectious diseases, to see if a child they would have will carry it on, also they must agree to a form of sterilization after their first child.[citation needed]
Political
The "One Child" policy is known all around the world, China had enforced this law to reduce its rapidly growing population, and the effects of this method will only be seen until 2040, where the population will start a steady or drastic decline.
Because of this one child policy, families tend to only want a boy to help them in the future, but this is fading out with growing job opportunities for women.
Different Countries Optimum Population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_population