July 2023 Round-up

by | Jul 27, 2023 | Monthly Round-Ups

July Round-up: At the end of each month, the AGS team looks back at articles and blog posts that we saw this month that stood out to us. Some are from news agencies, and many come from our partners, but not all use our data. Here is the round-up from July 2023. Sites...

Aging Population and Migration

by | Jul 27, 2023 | Demographics, Maps

Over the past several decades, the median age of the population has been steadily rising from 29.3 in 1980 to 37.8 in 2023. People are waiting longer to start families and having fewer children. The impacts of this are well known: the stress on Social Security and...
Changing Demographics

Changing Demographics

by | Jul 20, 2023 | Current Events, Demographics

This weekend, the New York Times published an article titled “How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World”. Of course, it caught our eye. The article talked about how the world is going to experience a major shift, particularly in age, over the next few...

Only Fools Rush In

by | Jul 20, 2023 | Census

As many of you know, after many delays the Census Bureau finally released the DHC (Demographic and Housing Characteristics) file at the end of May. This eagerly anticipated set of files includes many essential core tables, such as population by age and sex, race by...