1. The United Nations Population Fund is an international development agency that is committed to protecting the rights of individuals to enjoy a healthy life and purse equal opportunities. The organization's website provides a wealth of information on population issues and has several interactive multimedia features including a current events video channel.

http://www.unfpa.org/

2. The International Organization for Migration was developed over a half-century ago to ensure the orderly and humane management of migration. Through the website, you may learn about global migration trends , international laws relating to migration policy and recent news updates on current migration issues. It also provides a very informative facts and figures section along with photo galleries of migration crises.

http://www.iom.int/jahia/jsp/index.jsp

3. The Population Reference Bureau is designed to inform individuals about population, health and the environment while empowering them to advance the well-being of future generations. Through this forward-reaching agenda, you may learn about the issues that different countries face in terms of their respective populations through factsheets, a population database and timely research publications.

http://www.prb.org/

4. If you are interested in how the United States fits into the dialogue on global population trends, it is worth exploring the Federal Government's Census webpage. In addition to providing information on the 2000 and 2010 census projects, you may also explore the population demographics associated with each state and many large cities. The website also has a special education section that includes reference materials, information about the census program and teaching guides.

http://www.census.gov/

5. Worldmapper is an online collection of world maps in which countries and territories are resized on each map according to the subject of interest. For example, the organization's population maps visually demonstrate for students just how the global population is distributed around the world. Through exploring current, future and historical maps , you will discover many changing demographic trends around the world.

http://www.worldmapper.org/textindex/text_index.html

6. The website of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations provides information on global issues including: the avian flu, bioenergy and biodiversity, climate change, food safety and millennium development goals. By exploring these topics, with a basic understanding of population trends, one will have a better understanding of how population and migration impact these greater global issues. Slideshows, webcasting and podcasts present all this information in an engaging and interactive format.

http://www.fao.org/

7. In February 2008, the Associated Press did a feature on recently released United Nations data that says half of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2008. It looks at megacities, historical migration trends and regional population patterns - thereby providing a logical follow-up to this essay's look at the next 15,000 days.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/26/news/UN-GEN-UN-Growing-Cities.php

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