Project: Evidence to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
(2016) Efforts to end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) are a rising priority on many national and global agendas. Thus it is imperative to have a clear understanding of the scale and scope of the practice, and where it occurs, as well as the dynamics of change and the broader context surrounding it.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Fertility rates in the United States dropped to their lowest level in recorded history, with women having an average of 1.7 births in their lifetime. That’s one of the key findings in PRB’s 2019 World Population Data Sheet.
Among assisted living residents, those with dementia spent more time alone and sleeping in 2020 than their peers without the condition
(2003) The lingering effects of a long civil war, climatic changes, and infectious diseases represent major threats to life in the southern African nation of Mozambique, where 17.5 million people live, the vast majority in rural poverty.
(2002) Environ 13 % des décès maternels à l'échelle mondiale sont le résultat de complications d'avortements dangereux1, et dans certaines régions ce chiffre représente jusqu'à un tiers de ces décès.
(2009) A new demographic and health survey (DHS) from Egypt shows that the number of children per woman has declined, from 3.5 in 2000 to about 3.0 in 2008.
Family planning is critical for the health of women and their families, and it can accelerate a country's progress toward reducing poverty and achieving development goals. Because of its importance, universal access to reproductive health services, including family planning, is identified as one of the targets of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).