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OECD Publishing, 2024
The past decade has seen declining numbers of 0-4 year-olds while the number of 5-14 year-olds has continued to rise. During this period, most countries increased their financial investment in primary and lower secondary education, improving student-teacher ratios. However, the distribution of teachers remains uneven, with urban areas often facing…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Population Distribution, Demography
Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2014
The Pacific region is comprised of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI); the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)-Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap; Guam; Hawai'i; the Republic of the Marshall Islands; and the Republic of Palau. This document begins by providing a map of the REL Pacific region overlaid on a map of…
Descriptors: Demography, Population Distribution, Official Languages, Language of Instruction
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Jacob, Sunday – World Journal of Education, 2015
This study examined the pattern of students/teachers' population in schools as a result of the crises witnessed in Jos and its consequences on quality of teaching as well as peaceful living in Jos. Stratified simple random sampling technique was used to select the 18 schools that were used for this study. Questionnaire was used to collect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions, Conflict, Population Trends
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Sanchez, Patricia; Machado-Casas, Margarita – High School Journal, 2009
Except for Mexico, there are now more Latino-origin people in the U.S. than there are people in Spain, Argentina, Colombia, or any other Spanish-speaking country. In fact, the nation is experiencing the greatest demographic transformation in the last 100 years of its history. As former schoolteachers of immigrant children in Texas and California,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Educational Researchers, Immigrants
Jackson, R. W. B.; Quazi, Saeed – 1978
An attempt to project the 1981 total Ontario population for each municipality in each county and district was made to provide some guidelines in projections of school enrollment, especially in those areas of apparent rapid growth or even of decline in total population. The process followed was the preparation of a preliminary estimate of the 1981…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Demography, Foreign Countries, Population Distribution
Lauster, Nathanael; Allan, Graham – University of British Columbia Press, 2011
Fertility rates have fallen dramatically around the world. In some countries, there are no longer enough children being born to replace adult populations. The disappearance of children is a matter of concern matched only by fears that childhood is becoming too structured or not structured enough, too short or too long, or just simply too different…
Descriptors: Investigations, Demography, Anthropology, Prediction
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Howard, Patrick – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2007
The impetus for this article was research I conducted while living with children on the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, during the culmination of decades of blatant disregard for the marine ecosystem. At the heart of the social and ecological devastation happening in Canada's Newfoundland and Labrador communities are matters of environmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ecology, Environmental Education, Indigenous Knowledge
Jones, Evan; And Others – 1983
The demographic context that will affect postsecondary education in Western Australia is examined, with attention to recent trends in population growth as well as population distribution and projections to the year 2021. The analysis is based on the 1981 Population and Housing Census and population projections of the Australian Bureau of…
Descriptors: College Planning, Demography, Foreign Countries, Population Distribution
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McQueen, P. Cameron; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1987
Regional prevalence of major mental retardation in 7- to 10-year-olds in a cross-sectional survey of the Canadian Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island) was 3.65/1000. Variation in prevalence rate was associated with maternal age, areas of greater population concentration, and number of physicians per capita.…
Descriptors: Children, Demography, Foreign Countries, Health Services
Long, John F.; Pryor, Edward T. – Current Population Reports: Special Studies, 1990
The result of cooperative research between Statistics Canada and the United States Bureau of the Census, this report presents tabulations of the demographic, economic, and social characteristics of persons born in Canada and counted in the U. S. Census of 1980 along with persons born in the United States and counted in the Canadian census of 1981.…
Descriptors: Demography, Foreign Countries, Graphs, Maps
Nicholson, Beryl – 1976
Migration over a period of 20 years in 3 neighbouring, but contrasting, communes in North Norway was examined to determine whether a village or small town in a rural area functioned as an intervening opportunity for the area's rural inhabitants. The nature and effects of local migration which occurred in a predominantly rural area during the…
Descriptors: Age, Community Size, Demography, Foreign Countries
Neugebauer, Roger – Child Care Information Exchange, 2002
Examines demographic information about the status of young children around the world. Graphs nations with the largest populations of young children and highest percentage of their populations composed of young children in comparison to the aged, the percentage of regional populations under age 5 and over 64, and birth and infant mortality rates.…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Demography, Foreign Countries, Geographic Distribution
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van Langevelde, Ab – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
The consequences of migration for the position of the Frisian language in the Netherlands are analyzed. An annual model is presented that can estimate the effect of extraprovincial migration on the number of people speaking Frisian at home. (Contains 31 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Demography, Dutch, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1989
This report of proceedings summarizes a meeting held for facilitating the exchange of information between 27 educational specialists from 8 member states of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. These specialists held positions of responsibility in connection with the education of children belonging to families that,…
Descriptors: Demography, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Migrant Children
Espenshade, Thomas J. – 1986
The low fertility of Western industrial nations is likely to become a permanent condition; in the absence of immigration, populations with below-replacement fertility will eventually decline in size. But at the same time fertility is declining, international migration to the West is accelerating. Legal immigration to the United States rose from…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Birth Rate, Demography, Foreign Countries
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