Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
Narrated by Jeff Jordan, PRB's president, this short video illustrates the 2014 World Population Data Sheet's main findings about world population, infant and maternal health, poverty, and the environment.
In this Jason Bremner, associate vice president of International Programs at PRB, and Lori M. Hunter, professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, discussed the relationship between migration and the environment and highlighted innovative research taking place at population research centers.
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
Modern contraception use in Kenya increased 24 percentage points in only two and a half decades (between 1989 and 2014).
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
This year we focus on the state of the world's youth—the 16 percent of the global population between 15 and 24 years old. Explore data and graphical features that illustrate the extent to which youth are poised to become productive adults.
Each year about 1 million Nigerian children die before their fifth birthday. Malnutrition contributes to nearly half of these deaths. The multimedia presentation, Malnutrition: Nigeria’s Silent Crisis, presents the reasons why proper nutrition for women and children is so important, especially in the first 1,000 day period—from the start of a woman’s pregnancy until her child’s second birthday.
(2015) In the United States, full-time working women earn less than men, on average—even in female-dominated occupations (those in which women comprise 70 percent or more of workers), such as nurse practitioners, office clerks, and flight attendants.
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
Modern contraception use in Kenya increased 24 percentage points in only two and a half decades (between 1989 and 2014).
Each year about 1 million Nigerian children die before their fifth birthday. Malnutrition contributes to nearly half of these deaths. The multimedia presentation, Malnutrition: Nigeria’s Silent Crisis, presents the reasons why proper nutrition for women and children is so important, especially in the first 1,000 day period—from the start of a woman’s pregnancy until her child’s second birthday
