(2010) Family planning policymakers, program managers, and advocates have successfully carried out efforts that address and improve all aspects of reproductive health programs in developing countries.
(2010) The phrase “1.57 Shock” was widely used in Japan 20 years ago in reaction to the lowest fertility rate in the country’s history.
(2010) The Honorable Amina Salum Ali is the Permanent Representative of the African Union to the United States.
(May 2010) Muslim religious leaders in Egypt—known as imams—appear to know more than the average Egyptian man about HIV/AIDS and its modes of transmission; but there are major gaps in imams’ knowledge about the disease, and their attitudes are not favorable toward people living with HIV.
(April 2010) The demography of the United States is changing at an accelerated pace. Over the past 20 years, the number of Latino children under age 18 living in the United States has doubled, making them one of the fastest-growing segments of the national population.
(Video Series) The birth rate is one of the most basic and important measures in demography. But its relevance is not limited to just demographers.
(2010) The Malthus Lectureship, a partnership between the Population Reference Bureau and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), promotes the study of the connections among nutrition, food, agriculture, and population and invites an outstanding scholar or policymaker to give a presentation each year.
(2010) Many developing countries adopted policies to slow population growth in the latter half of the 20th century in response to population growth rates that had risen to three or more times greater than those ever observed in industrialized countries.
(2010) Population growth has slowed in U.S.
(2010) During the current U.S. recession, homeownership and mobility rates have dropped; poverty has increased; and commuting patterns have shifted toward greener, more cost-effective options.