(2009) The United States has higher fertility rates among teenage girls compared with other developed countries of the world.1 For example, girls ages 15 to 19 have fertility rates more than five times higher than their counterparts in developed countries such as France, Italy, Japan, Slovenia, and Switzerland.
(2005) Ask about "the population problem" to people of a certain age, and the first and perhaps only thing that comes to mind is the "population bomb" or "population explosion."
(2004) The starkly uneven pace of population growth between most developing and industrialized nations represents the world's major demographic fault line. The Population Reference Bureau's just-released 2004 World Population Data Sheet demonstrates that nearly 99 percent of all population increase takes place in poor countries, while population size is static or declining in the rich nations.
(2010) The United States has a lower life expectancy than many other wealthy countries—and the gap has been widening over the last two decades.
(2011) In her new book, The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security, author Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba argues that the future of warfare will be shaped by demographic trends in fertility, mortality, and migration.
Attempts at immigration reform should address issues that have been with us, in various guises, for at least a century.
Current and former PRB staff members share their tributes to two PRB greats
