What Is a City? What Is Urbanization?
In 2008, the United Nations announced that 50 percent of the world's population now lives in urban areas, a milestone in demographic history.
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ENGAGE Snapshot: Family Planning and Gender Equality Go Hand-in-Hand
Gender equality means a balance in the power and privileges, responsibilities, and resources that men and women possess.
ENGAGE Snapshot: Family Planning and Millennium Development Goal #1
Although progress has been made toward achieving Millennium Development Goal #1 in sub-Saharan Africa, the absolute number of people living in poverty continues to rise, due to population growth.
People, Health, Planet – Longstanding PRB Project Gets a New Name
For 20 years, Population Reference Bureau has been connecting human health and planetary health, to show how population dynamics (including family planning) and environmental change interact and affect human and planetary health. Our new name for this practice area is People, Health, Planet.
U.S. Hispanic and Asian Population Growth Levels Off
(2009) U.S. Asian and Hispanic/Latino population growth rates have started to slow, according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Obesity Creeping Up on Less Developed Countries
(2005) In the developed world, obesity is an object of everyday conversation and mounting public concern. But a silent epidemic of obesity-related diseases—among them, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and Type-2 diabetes—is also spreading rapidly across poor and middle-income countries, where such illnesses have been overshadowed by infectious diseases and undernutrition.