Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
To better design and target anti-smoking efforts, researchers are examining stress, genes linked to nicotine addiction, and neighborhood/family characteristics to identify who smokes today and why.
The Kenya Population Data Sheet 2011 provides population, health, and environment data compared over time, and among regions, wealth quintiles, and education levels.
While many economic measures are looking up, key health and education indicators are backsliding, according to the 2025 KIDS COUNT Data Book
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
(2020) The U.S. population is undergoing rapid racial and ethnic change, led by growth of the Hispanic/Latino and Asian American populations. For policymakers and others, keeping track of these changes is important because some racial and ethnic groups are faring worse than others.
In 2020, for the first time in decades, more children ages 17 and younger died from guns than from motor vehicle crashes.
(2009) For over 35 years, Dr. Sharon Ramey has studied early childhood development and how to implement scientific research in policy. On Feb. 11, she participated in PRB's Policy Seminar series to discuss how to take what is known to work for early childhood development and bring science to bear to design effective policy.
As Earth's population reaches the eight-billion milestone, we put it into context.