2011) In Yemen, one in three women ages 20 to 24 report that they were married before their 18th birthday. And although there seems to be a positive trend over generations, Yemen still has the highest rate of early marriage in western Asia and is considered one of the top 20 "hot spots" for child marriage.
By acknowledging the direct link between individuals and public policies, PRB reinforces the relevance of data, showing that every citizen has a stake in decisions grounded in facts.
Project: KIDS COUNT
Popular claims that the pandemic prompted young adults to "return to the nest" do not reflect reality.
World population grew to 7.06 billion in mid-2012 after having passed the 7 billion mark in 2011.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
In this webinar, two distinguished researchers discussed how U.S. state policies and systems can affect racial and regional inequities in health and longevity.
(2010) Family planning empowers women and can save their lives. It can also help reduce poverty, slow population growth, and ease pressures on the environment.
(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.
(2005) Populations are growing older in countries throughout the world. While the populations of more developed countries have been aging for well over a century, this process began recently in most less developed countries, and it is being compressed into a few decades. By 2050, nearly 1.2 billion of the expected 1.5 billion people age 65 or older will reside in today's less developed regions.
(2012) The widespread adoption of family planning represents one of the most dramatic changes of the 20th century. The growing use of contraception around the world has given couples the ability to choose the number and spacing of their children, which, in turn, has prevented large numbers of unintended pregnancies, reduced the number of abortions, and reduced the incidence of deaths and illnesses related to pregnancy and childbirth.