Population Issues Network Newswatch

Looking at the world through demographics. This blog covers population in the news. Accelerating demographic growth is now the main factor driving biodiversity loss, growing resource scarcity, poverty and social conflict. Over-production and over-consumption are worsening this ecological crisis. 7 billion in 2011 - 9.3 or 10.6 billion (UN high estimate) by 2050. 80 million additional people a year at current rates! Is it not time to rethink population growth?

Saturday, May 28, 2011

U.S. Sees Surge in Asian, Hispanic Populations

Conor Dougherty – Wall Street Journal

New findings from the Census Bureau show that Asians and Hispanics are the nation's fastest-expanding large minority groups, and shed light on which states are seeing most population growth from the groups.

For full article:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304520804576349712589423294.html