Since 2006, the World Economic Forum has issued a Global Gender Gap Index to review gender-based disparities around the world and track progress in closing the gap in four areas: educational attainment, health, economic participation, and political empowerment.
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.
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
This ENGAGE presentation designed for improving access to health services (especially family planning and reproductive health), while also helping households improve livelihoods, manage natural resources, and conserve the critical ecosystems on which they depend.
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.
Though often overlooked, there is an important relationship between fertility and economic growth that has been demonstrated in countries around the world.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
2019 World Population Data Sheet: Wolves, Water, and War: The Importance of the Census Throughout History
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
(2020) The U.S. population is undergoing rapid racial and ethnic change, led by growth of the Hispanic/Latino and Asian American populations. For policymakers and others, keeping track of these changes is important because some racial and ethnic groups are faring worse than others.
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
Data from the latest Demographic and Health Survey show that Tanzania did not achieve its commitment to increase the contraceptive prevalence rate to 60 percent by 2015.
