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Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
2022 World Population Data Sheet Booklet
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Annexes. Polygamy in West Africa
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Future Trends in Fertility Will Shape the Demographic Window of Opportunity in USAID Priority Countries
A country’s age structure is primarily driven by its past fertility trends, which have important economic, social, and political implications.
Project: Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy to Expand Access to Safe Abortion (SAFE ENGAGE)
Laws Change Lives: What Is the Connection Between Abortion Laws and Maternal Health?
When women with unwanted pregnancies encounter barriers to accessing abortion such as restrictive laws, they often resort to unsafe abortion.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Municipality-Level Estimates of Adolescent Fertility in Nepal
Municipality-level estimates of adolescent fertility in Nepal allow decisionmakers to more strategically invest family planning resources to address high adolescent fertility.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
2020 World Population Data Sheet Interactive
The 2020 World Population Data Sheet offers the latest population, health, and environment indicators for more than 200 countries and territories, each carefully researched by PRB’s expert team of demographers and analysts.
How Demographic Changes Make Us More Vulnerable to Pandemics Like the Coronavirus
(2020) The world is better equipped to fight a pandemic today than it was in 1918, when influenza swept the globe and infected up to one-third of the world’s population.1 While science and medical advances have given us new advantages in fighting disease, some demographic trends since 1918 may increase the risk for spreading contagions and our vulnerability to viruses.
Project: Evidence to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
Report. Reflections From Five Years of Research on FGM/C
From 2015 to 2019, the African-led consortium developed innovative research methods and uncovered new evidence about the practice and how it is changing—focusing on families and communities, and health and legal systems—in eight countries: Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, and Sudan.