The Backdrop: Rising Inequality in the U.S.
(2014) Countries around the world are paying more attention to inequality as an indicator of social and economic well-being.
Area of Expertise: Children, Youth, and Families
PRB’s Women’s Edition Reporters Help Bring Criminals to Justice
(2014) News reporting in the past year by PRB’s Women’s Edition participants has been instrumental in exposing violence against women to authorities in Kenya and Pakistan and forging a path to justice for women who were raped.
La fiche de données sur la population au Bénin
By asoares
En 34 ans seulement, la population du Bénin est passée de 3,3 millions de personnes en 1979 à 9,9 millions en 2013. La population continuera à augmenter, compte tenu du taux de fécondité élevé aujourd’hui, soit 4,9 enfants par femme.
Child Mortality Rates Decline Steadily Across Much of the World
(October 2014) The child mortality rate is the number of deaths of children under 5 per 1,000 live births. The United Nations set a target for Millennium Development Goal 4: to reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-5 mortality rate.
Where Poverty and Inequality Intersect
In the United States, the gap between those at the top of the economic ladder and those at the bottom is wide and growing.
In U.S., New Data Show Longer, More Sedentary Commutes
Sitting in traffic, waiting for a train or bus, navigating bike lanes and sidewalks—these are things that can be stressful for commuters getting to work.
Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Malnutrition in India
Globally, an estimated one in four children under age 5 suffer from stunting, a form of malnutrition in which children are shorter than normal for their age.
Déchiffrer la démographie du Myanmar
(2014) Le Myanmar (appelé la Birmanie jusqu’en mai 1989) revient dans l’actualité, en particulier parce qu’il a récemment fait des progrès notables pour parvenir à un régime plus démocratique.
Faith and Families for a Healthier Kenya
“Faith and Families for a Healthier Kenya” is an ENGAGE multimedia presentation that portrays why family planning is consistent with religious values.
Global Family Planning Goals and Measurement: Where Are We Now?
In this webinar, Scott Radloff, senior scientist at the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, and Emily Sonneveldt, director for the Center of M&E and Advocacy at the Futures Institute, describe how mobile technology is being used by local data collectors in Africa and Asia to generate rapid-turnaround data, and how this information is being used in tandem with modeling that leverages service statistics to measure progress across 70 countries in meeting global family planning goals.