Rural Children Lag in Early Childhood Educational Skills
(2005) A new study on early childhood educational achievement says that young rural children begin elementary school well behind their urban and suburban peers in reading and math skills.
(2005) A new study on early childhood educational achievement says that young rural children begin elementary school well behind their urban and suburban peers in reading and math skills.
(2001) At first glance, results from India's 2001 census seem encouraging. They show a decline in the population growth rate, an improvement in the ratio of men to women, and a remarkable increase in literacy, particularly for girls and women. Yet one important indicator — the sex ratio among children under the age of 7 — shows signs of regression.
PRB is a partner on the Palladium-led, USAID-funded Health Policy Plus (HP+) project that strengthens and advances health policy priorities at global, national, and subnational levels.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
The world population will reach 9.9 billion in 2050, up 33 percent from an estimated 7.4 billion now, according to projections included in the 2016 World Population Data Sheet from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB).
Project: Demographic Forecasting Services—AMBAG
Two demographic groups—young adults ages 20 to 34 and older adults ages 65 and older—are reshaping the population in rural America.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
Women who experienced childhood adversity are more likely to have their first child early or outside of marriage, face a greater risk of cancer than men, and are particularly vulnerable to health impacts when they are lower income.
In the book Five Generations at Work: How We Win Together, for Good, authors Patrick Dunne and Rebecca Robins describe how we’re living in a time of unprecedented demographic change, where five generations work alongside each other in an ideologically and politically fractured environment.
(2005) A new study contends that rising childhood obesity rates will cut average U.S. life expectancy from birth by two to five years in the coming decades—a magnitude of decline last seen in the United States during the Great Depression.
(2007)When where you born? How many brothers and sisters did you have? Where did your ancestors live? How long will you live?