(April 2008) The Middle East and North Africa includes some of the world's fastest growing countries, and the region as a whole saw its population quadruple in the second part of the 20th century, from 104 million to 400 million.
(2015) In the mid-1990s, I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a village in Niger, a West African country consistently ranked as one of the poorest in the world. I lived in a mud hut, learned a local language, made lasting friendships and did interesting work.
(2011) Global food prices have been rising, threatening to reach record levels in the coming months if current trends continue.
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
(2004) Human beings have become an increasingly powerful environmental force over the last 10,000 years. With the advent of agriculture 8,000 years ago, we began to change the land.1
What’s next for an aging, shrinking world?
PRB’s latest Population Bulletin provides a basic understanding of demography and demographic processes, including fertility, mortality, and migration, and their effects on the world.
(2003) Encore sous le coup des répercussions de la crise financière en Asie, l'Indonésie souffre depuis quelques années de nombreuses difficultés, allant des troubles sociaux, de l'instabilité politique, de la violence ethnique et confessionnelle à la diminution de l'accès aux services de santé et autres services publics.