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Letter From PRB President Bill Butz
(February 2009) When resources are even more constrained than usual, policy decisions are truly difficult. In such hard times, accurate data and unbiased research become even more valuable. Nearly every nation finds itself in this situation today.
To use their scarce resources wisely, policymakers in developing countries want to know, for example, where unmet need for contraceptives is the greatest and how to reduce maternal mortality. Policymakers in the United States want to know how children are faring and what challenges the country faces from rapid population aging. On these and many other questions, PRB brings data and research to policymakers, the media, teachers, and the world’s citizens. We do our best to inform them in the most useful language and formats and at the most opportune times.
This Annual Report highlights just a few of the many ways we accomplish our work. One aspect impresses me so much this year that I want to share it with you. In the last 20 months PRB has produced eight different data sheets! Our annual World Population Data Sheet, released each summer, appears on walls and is tucked into briefcases all around the world. This is normal. However, the others are new and different. I suspect that no more than three PRB data sheets have ever appeared in a comparable period before. Here they all are:
- Population and Economic Development Linkages: 2007 Data Sheet (April 2007)
- 2007 U.S. Population Data Sheet (May 2007)
- 2007 World Population Data Sheet (August 2007)
- Family Planning Worldwide 2008 (March 2008)
- 2008 World Population Data Sheet (August 2008)
- Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Data and Trends (September 2008)
- Africa Population Data Sheet 2008, in partnership with the African Population and Health Research Center (October 2008)
- 2008 European Demographic Data Sheet, in partnership with the Vienna Institute of Demography and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (October 2008)
Some data sheets have been translated into one or more languages, including Arabic, French, German, Spanish, and Thai—for a total of 22 PRB data sheets. Most of them are available on our website. In addition, various of these data sheets were accompanied by press briefings, PRB Population Bulletins, webcasts, audiocasts, online discussions, and policy briefs.
For making these data sheets and all our other activities possible, we are grateful to our sponsors. We also value our partners in the United States and around the world. And we greatly appreciate our individual donors. We are ever-mindful that your help is, in a word, essential to our operations and growth.
In this era of very limited resources, program managers, policymakers, and the media around the world need the best data and analysis as never before. With your support, we will continue to honor our commitment to our mission: Inform, Empower, Advance.
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