2012 World Population Data Sheet (PDF)
Nearly all future population growth will be in the world's less developed countries, and the poorest of these countries will see the greatest percentage increase.
Nearly all future population growth will be in the world's less developed countries, and the poorest of these countries will see the greatest percentage increase.
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
(2009) "The World in 2050: A Scientific Investigation of the Impact of Global Population Changes on a Divided Planet" was held in Berkeley, Calif., on Jan. 23 and 24, 2009.
Project: KIDS COUNT
(2014) The index disaggregates data by racial and ethnic group and by state in order to measure the "impact of a child’s race on his or her opportunity for success in adulthood," according to the foundation.
(2010) In 2004, the Interagency Gender Working Group, funded by the United States Agency for International Development, published The "So What?" Report: A Look at Whether Integrating a Gender Focus into Programs Makes a Difference to Outcomes. The 2004 report presented evidence of the value of integrating gender into programs for promoting positive reproductive health and gender outcomes.
(2009) Without a doubt, the American Community Survey (ACS) is fundamentally changing the way we collect and use data to assess the nation's population and housing. While the traditional census long form collected detailed socioeconomic data just once a decade, the ACS is a continuous survey that provides updated demographic, economic, and housing data every year.
(2009) Speculation has been rife in the media on the possible effect of the current recession on the U.S. birth rate. In January of this year posed this same question but now, at mid-year, unemployment is approaching 10 percent for the first time in over a quarter century, the housing "bubble" has truly burst, banks and industries that have been pillars of the economy have gone bankrupt, and consumer confidence has reached one of its lowest points in the past 50 years.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
The 2020 World Population Data Sheet offers the latest population, health, and environment indicators for more than 200 countries and territories, each carefully researched by PRB’s expert team of demographers and analysts.