In 2019, many economic indicators seemed to be pointing in the right direction. The unemployment rate had fallen to its lowest level since 1969, the poverty rate fell to the lowest level in 60 years, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached an all-time high.
By Julia Greene
PRB leads the KidsData program, which advances children’s well-being in California by providing a high-quality, wide-ranging data website and collaborating with those who work on behalf of children.
The release of a new set of population projections by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in July 2020 was greeted with extensive coverage in the media and stimulated fresh debate among demographers about calculation and communication of projections.
PRB’s commitment to data-driven policies that support effective family planning and reproductive health programs and services has been our ballast for nearly a half-century.
By sgroene
The mortality rate for Black Americans in non-pandemic years is higher than the mortality rate for white Americans who died from COVID-19 and all other causes in 2020.
For several decades, PRB has helped researchers, journalists, advocates, and decisionmakers understand, use, and communicate population and health data, research, and information to improve the well-being of all people.
In Ghana and Uganda, young people below the the age of 15 dominate the population age structure. Both countries can shift this high child dependency by empowering women to achieve their reproductive goals.
Migration is a common strategy used by millions of rural households in less-developed countries facing daily and long-term challenges, including economic risk related to climate change.
As countries work to ensure women and couples are able to choose whether, when, and how often to have children, it is critical to examine the drivers of contraceptive discontinuation that may inhibit young people from achieving their reproductive intentions.