Understanding and Using 5-Year Estimates From the ACS
(December 2010) New five-year estimates from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey create many new opportunities as well as challenges for data users.
Resource Type: Past Presentation
New and Upcoming Contraceptive Technologies
(2010) What are the most promising recent new developments in contraceptive research and implementation? What are current priorities in the research and development of new contraceptives?
PRB Discuss Online: The Well-Being of Older Populations
(2010) In many countries, the elderly now make up an unprecedented share of the population. This increase in the number of older people has implications for national budgets, labor force growth, and family support systems.
Defining ‘Good’ and ‘Poor’ Health Empirically: A Profile of Older Adults in the United States
(2010) A large share of the older population in the United States is doing well, overall.
100 Years and Beyond: Increasing Human Life Expectancy
(2010) Humans are living longer than ever before. In fact, newborn children in high-income countries can expect to live to more than 100 years.
Are Climate Change and Sustainable Development Really Linked?
(2010) According to Karen Hardee, the gap between those working on climate change issues and those in international development needs to be bridged. The two communities have different priorities and “don’t speak the same language.
PRB Discuss Online: A Call to Action: Increasing Global Investments in Youth
(2010) With almost half of the world’s population under age 25, investments in young people are vital to improve economic and social outcomes and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Family Care for an Aging Population
(2010) Today, Americans are more likely to marry and to divorce than in almost any other Western nation. Serial marriages, rising levels of cohabitation, delayed childbearing, and nonmarital parenthood have added complexity to American families.
First Annual Malthus Lecture: “Meat”
(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.
Commemorating 2010 International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
(2010) An estimated 100 million to 140 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and more than 3 million girls are at risk for cutting each year on the African continent alone.