HOW WE HAVE CHANGED SINCE THE UNITED STATES WAS A NATION OF 200 MILLION (September 2006) The United States is set to reach a milestone in October. It will become the third country—after China and India—to be home to at least 300 million people.
(2015) According to news reports, Nigerian parliamentarian Babatunde Gabriel Kolawole backed a proposed motion for population policy legislation with projections from PRB’s World Population Data Sheet as evidence of a brewing crisis and the need to take quick policy action to avert it.
(2000) Senegal's AIDS community turns out in force when the local women's association, called AWA, holds its board meetings. UN advisors, medical personnel, representatives from nongovernmental organizations, and the National AIDS Program come to honor the women for their frontline position in the fight against AIDS.
Le travail de soin invisible devient un enjeu collectif, et les données le confirment : il est temps d’intégrer dans notre vision de la croissance ce qui fait réellement tenir nos sociétés.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
Environmental forces like wildfire, extreme heat, and pollution can have profound effects on our health, jobs, and decisions on where to live.
(2010) This year's World Health Day (April 7) focuses on the importance of urban health. Urbanization is occurring so rapidly in some parts of the world that cities are not able to keep up with increased demand for environmental, health, and educational services, not to mention the employment, housing, and transportation needs of a population that may double in size in less than 25 years.
The current growth of the population ages 65 and older is unprecedented in U.S. history and has important implications for policymakers.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
(2019) Our analysis focuses on the factors that are most closely associated with the net undercount of children in the census.