Synopses & Reviews
This year's edition presents a special focus on population, gender and development. It provides an historical review of population and gender issues on the global agenda and covers such topics as family formation, health and mortality, HIV/AIDS, ageing and internal and international migration. In addition, the World Population Monitoring contains an extensive set of tables providing indicators of the current demographic situation in major areas and regions of the world. It also presents data on population size and growth, distribution, fertility and mortality levels.