Demographics & Population

Blog Posts

Up Front

Inequalities in housing hardship declined because everybody is now worse off

Yung Chun and Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Friday, April 30, 2021

A worker weaves a carpet from the fibre extracted from the sheaths of banana trunks at the TexFad plant in Sonde settlement of Mukono near Kampala, Uganda, April 3, 2021. Picture taken April 3, 2021. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa

Africa in Focus

It’s easy to exaggerate the scope of the jobs problem in Africa. The real story is nuanced.

Louise Fox

Monday, April 19, 2021

An employee of Telkom Kenya looks at a display stand at the company's shop in Nairobi, Kenya, July 27, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Africa in Focus

Good news, Africa is creating jobs—but the narrative is complicated

Louise Fox

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

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Events

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Past Policy 2020 Event

Blue metros, red states: The fight for the suburbs

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Recovery in America’s legacy cities

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Past Policy 2020 Event

A nation at a demographic crossroad: Rising diversity, youthful activism, and the 2020 election

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Online only

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Related Books

Diversity Explosion

By William H. Frey

2018

L’offensive chinoise en europe

By Philippe Le Corre and Alain Sepulchre

2015

Society at a Glance 2014

By Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD

2014

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Experts

Randall Akee

Nonresident Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Children and Families, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

Former Brookings Rubenstein Fellow

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Alan Berube

Senior Fellow and Deputy Director - Metropolitan Policy Program

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William H. Frey

Senior Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

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Multimedia

New citizens stand during the Pledge of Allegiance at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library in Manhattan, New York, U.S., July 3, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Podcast Episode

Podcast: Our nation of immigrants

John Hudak

Monday, September 21, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Balloons decorate an event for community activists and local government leaders to mark the one-year-out launch of the 2020 Census efforts in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., April 1, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

Podcast Episode

What America’s slow-growing population means for immigration, the Electoral College, and more

William H. Frey and Fred Dews

Friday, January 10, 2020

A protester holds a sign outside the U.S. Supreme Court where the court ruled that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration did not give an adequate explanation for its plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, delivering a victory to New York state and others challenging the proposal in Washington, U.S., June 27, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - RC11B5E74430

Podcast Episode

What does the Supreme Court decision on citizenship status mean for the 2020 census?

William H. Frey

Thursday, June 27, 2019

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More on Demographics & Population

A person holds census information at an event where U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke at a Census Town Hall at the Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, New York City, U.S., February 22, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

The Census Bureau must be allowed to finish its job

Cameron F. Kerry

Boston Globe Monday, March 1, 2021

Numbers of syringes filled with the Moderna's vaccines against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are seen on a table at a drive-through vaccination site in Robstown, Texas, U.S. February 9, 2021. REUTERS/Go Nakamura

A colorblind vaccine approach isn’t good enough. The US needs racial equity

Rashawn Ray

The Guardian (UK) Tuesday, February 9, 2021

WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES NOVEMBER 2, 2020: A voter wears a bilingual I voted sticker at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) during early voting in the 2020 US presidential election. Yegor Aleyev/TASS.No use Russia.

Black voters helped Biden get elected. His presidency will be defined by how he acts on racial equity.

Rashawn Ray

The Washington Post Monday, February 8, 2021

Nurse helping an older person in a nursing home hallway.

Time to rethink nursing homes

Stuart M. Butler

Friday, February 5, 2021

A medical worker prepares a syringe with a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Brussels as part of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination campaign in Belgium, February 2, 2021. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

What’s the hold up? Why more vaccines haven’t been administered

Elaine Kamarck

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington January 20, 2021. Patrick Semansky/Pool via REUTERS

Biden-won counties are home to 67 million more Americans than Trump-won counties

William H. Frey

Thursday, January 21, 2021

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Reports

Blue metros, red states: The fight for the suburbs

Recovery in America’s legacy cities

A nation at a demographic crossroad: Rising diversity, youthful activism, and the 2020 election

Nonresident Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Children and Families, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

Former Brookings Rubenstein Fellow

Senior Fellow and Deputy Director - Metropolitan Policy Program

Senior Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program