Elliott Abrams looks at demographics in the West Bank.

Beijing's push for rapid urbanization aims to promote growth, but the socioeconomic effects remain unclear.

This new report on diversity in America finds that almost all communities—whether large immigrant gateways or small towns in the nation's heartland—have grown more diverse.

In this policy review by the Hoover Institution, Nicholas Eberstadt and Apoorva Shah discuss the current demographic changes taking place in the global Muslim population.

Populations throughout the developed world are aging and shrinking, with dire consequences. Yet decline is not inevitable. Even in the industrialized world, governments can encourage childbearing through policies that let women reconcile work and family.

Michael W. Hodin says the most recent crisis in the Netherlands may actualy be an opportunity for the Dutch to provide an economic model for nations to follow, where an aging population is the solution for economic growth.

As the world's population surpasses seven billion, CFR Senior Fellow for Global Health Yanzhong Huang identifies the variety of ways in which different global regions are impacted by population growth. Huang argues that a region- and issue-specific approach is needed to address population issues.

A growing population will add pressures to the world and the environment, and there must be greater focus on women's education and reproductive health, says demographic expert John Bongaarts.

This UNFPA report looks at population trends around the world and argues that the right investments in people can produce positive outcomes, even as the world's population passes seven billion.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has been gripped by a devastating population crisis almost unprecedented during peacetime.

Also known as the Cairo Concensus, the Cairo Declaration on Population and Development was written at the International Conference on Population and Developmentin November, 1994.

New books by Witold Rybczynski and Edward Glaeser celebrate the ever-changing American urban experience.

Joshua Kurlantzick reviews Mara Hvistendahl's Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men.

Joshua Kurlantzick reviews Mara Hvistendahl's Unnatural Selection.

Large numbers of unemployed youth have been behind the protests for change in the Middle East. Demographics expert Ragui Assaad says the region must move toward democracy and open economic systems to turn the youth bulge into an opportunity.

With global food prices again soaring to record levels, experts say policies are needed to bolster agriculture production and reduce trade barriers, particularly by the United States.

Global demographics in the twenty-first century will be defined by steep declines in fertility rates. Many countries will see their populations shrink and age.

In an effort to shed light on the challenges that youth continue to face in the Middle East, The Brookings Institution's Samantha Constant and Mary Kraetsch have created an interactive map and corresponding fact sheets that provide key statistics associated with youth unemployment in the region.

A series of looming demographic trends will greatly affect international security in the twenty-first century.

The European Commission Directorate-General for Research examines the factors and tensions shaping the international environment, and its transition towards a multi-polar world governance, and towards a new "socio-ecological" production model that Europe will help to promote.