The World's Youth 2006 Data Sheet

 While girls and boys are enrolling in secondary school in record numbers and early marriage is on the decline, many young people across the world still face daunting threats to their well-being—from sexually transmitted infections to complications from smoking. (February 2006)

Inform, Empower, Advance: How PRB Bridges the Gap Between Research and Policy
PRB's mission is to inform people around the world about population, health, and the environment as well as to empower them to use that information to advance the world's well-being. (January 2006)

Avian Flu and Influenza Pandemics
Avian flu is killing growing numbers of people, and outbreaks of the virus are reported in birds from Asia to Europe. This article gives an overview of the virus that causes the flu and details how it resembles the virus that caused the 1918 global flu pandemic. (January 2006)

Global Demographic Divide

 Birth and death rates differ dramatically among the nation's countries, often reflecting a gulf between have and have-not nations. This Population Bulletin looks at the factors fueling the differential growth causing the demographic divide, at the countries in between the two extremes, which contain the majority of the world's populations in 2005. (BUL60.4, December 2005)

What the American Community Survey Tells Us About U.S. Immigration
This relatively new Census Bureau monthly survey greatly improves our knowledge of new U.S. immigrants--their age, gender, language, education levels, country of origin, and how many are entering in a given year and to which states. (December 2005)

The Demographic Divide: What It Is and Why It Matters
The vast gulf in birth and death rates among the world’s countries reflects a global division between mostly poor nations with relatively high birth rates and low life expectancies and mostly wealthy nations with low birth rates and life expectancies past age 75. (December 2005)

Obesity Creeping Up on Less Developed Countries
A silent epidemic of obesity-related diseases—among them, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and Type-II diabetes—is spreading rapidly across poor and middle-income countries, where such illnesses have been overshadowed by infectious diseases and under nutrition. (October 2005)

Did Worldwide Inequality Drop Between 1960 and 2000?
A new study coauthored by a Nobel-Prize-winning economist says that life expectancy gains in less developed countries more than offset the widening global income disparity between rich and poor. (September 2005)

American Community Survey (PDF: 833KB)

 This Population Bulletin presents an overview of the American Community Survey, which is ushering in the most substantial change in the U.S. decennial census in more than 60 years. (BUL60.3, September 2005).

Frequently Asked Questions About the PRB World Population Data Sheet

 PRB staff are often asked how to interpret PRB's annual World Population Data Sheet and about current population trends. In this brief, we answer some of the qeustions we are frequently asked by educators, journalists, and others interested in population dynamics. (August 2005)