1. Business Insider: These Maps Show The Geography Of Interracial Marriage
This map shows white and African American marriages. Go to the article to see maps for other ethnicities.
2. PBS: Study finds that divorce rate rises as economy improves
… The divorce rate dipped from 2.09 percent to 1.95 percent between 2008 and 2009, the Times says, before rising to 1.98 percent in 2010 and 2011. …
3. CDC: U.S. fertility rate hit historic low in 2012
The 2012 general fertility rate declined to 63.0 births per 1,000 women aged 15–44, another historic low for the United States. The total fertility rate declined 1 %, to 1,880.5 births per 1,000 women in 2012. …
4. CNN: Why abortions are way down
The U.S. abortion rate is at its lowest point since 1973. In 2011, there were fewer than 17 terminations for every 1,000 women; a fall of 13% since 2008 and only a little higher than when the Supreme Court handed down Roe v. Wade. …
… According to researchers from the Guttmacher Institute, which released the new study, the latest decline is largely the result of improved birth control. In tough economic times, they argue, people tend to pay greater attention to contraception because they are more aware of the potential material costs of becoming pregnant. Also, the arrival of new kinds of contraceptives on the market, such as long-term intrauterine devices, means people aren't relying on pills and condoms that can fail. …
5. Atlantic: Map: What Country Does Your State's Life Expectancy Resemble?
As a side note, notice how close the rates of many developing nations are to the USA rate 79.7.
6. Forbes: Study: Cancer Rates Rising Across The Globe
… Despite all the advances in cancer medicine over the last few decades, cancer rates are rising. Globally, one in five men and one in six women will develop cancer before the age of 75. One in eight men and one in 12 women will die from the disease. But there’s some encouraging news, too. Many of these cases, say the WHO, could be averted with tools that are easily within our reach: Lifestyle and behavior changes.
In 2012, the WHO estimates that the worldwide cancer burden had increased to 14 million new cases per year, and included 8.2 million deaths. The number of new cases of cancer, they say, will likely rise to 22 million cases annually within the next 20 years. …
7. BBC: Measles global deaths decline by 78%, WHO estimates
New figures from the WHO suggest that around 13.8 million deaths were prevented during this time and reported cases declined by 77%. …
… Reported cases of measles worldwide declined from 853,480 to 226,722 over the same time.
Currently, 84% of the world's infants receive the first dose of measles vaccine before their first birthday, according to the WHO. …
8. Business Insider: America's Obesity Crisis Is Ending — As Long As You're Not Poor
… Obesity is decreasing among adolescents who come from well-educated families, but it has continued to increase in poor teens. Looking at the obesity rate overall, this reads as a plateau. …
9. Atlantic Cities: Why Big Cities Matter in the Developing World
Half the world's population lives in cities today, a figure that will increase to 70 percent by 2050. In that same time period, McKinsey Global Institute projects that the economic output of the 600 largest cities and metro areas is projected to grow $30 trillion, accounting for two-thirds of all global growth.
Economists and urbanists have long noted the connection between urbanization and economic development. …
… But it has been difficult to get at the precise ways that global cities relate to productivity and economic development, mainly because of the lack of comprehensive, systematic, and comparable data. Aside from estimates of their populations, none of the major statistical agencies — the United Nations, the World Bank, or others — collect comparable economic data for the world's urban areas.
Fortunately, the Brookings Institution's Global MetroMonitor has compiled data on GDP per capita for the world’s 300 largest metropolitan economies, most recently through 2012. These metros account for nearly one-half (48 percent) of global output, while being home to less than one in five (19 percent) of its people. Undertaken in collaboration with researchers from the London School of Economics, these data are based on assessments from Moody's Analytics and Oxford Economics. …
10. Business Insider: This Fascinating GIF Shows America's Foreign-Born Population Since 1850
11. New Geography: Moving South and West? Metropolitan America in 2042
The United States could have three more megacities (metropolitan areas over 10 million) by 2042, according to population projections released by the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM). Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Houston are projected to join megacities New York and Los Angeles as their metropolitan area populations rise above 10 million. At the projected growth rates, Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix, and Riverside-San Bernardino could pass the threshold by 2060. The population projections were prepared for USCM by Global Insight IHS. …
12. Business Insider: This Map Shows How The Center Of America Keeps Moving
13. Business Insider: Americans Are Still Moving To The Suburbs
According to the Census Bureau's most recent release on inter-county migration shows that in some of the nation's largest cities, the trend is to move out to far-flung suburbs. The Census keeps track of population flows between different counties by using data from the 2007-2011 American Community Survey.
14. Atlantic Cities: The Geography of the American Dream
15. New Geography: Rich, Poor, and Unequal Zip Codes
16. Business Insider: This Map Suggests Gentrification In San Francisco Is Caused By Childless Tech Workers And Their Company Buses
We recently showed you a set of maps showing how the tech sector in Silicon Valley is distorting the real estate market around it, all the way into San Francisco. The richest people live around Palo Alto, near the big tech company headquarter campuses, but the highest per-square-foot prices for real estate are in San Francisco.
What appears to be happening is that tech workers whose corporate campuses are in Silicon Valley are choosing to live in the city and commute to work, often by private company shuttle bus. Their demand for housing in San Francisco is pushing up prices there. …
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