Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
(2011) Improvement in gender equity and women's empowerment has been uneven around the world and slow in many regions, according to the World's Women and Girls 2011 Data Sheet.
(2012) Nearly 240 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, or one person in every four, lack adequate food for a healthy and active life, and record food prices and drought are pushing more people into poverty and hunger.1 At the same time, the world’s population has now surpassed 7 billion, and news headlines that in the past have asked “Can we feed the world?” are beginning to ask the equally important question, “How many will there be to feed?”
Project: Demographic Forecasting Services—AMBAG
Two demographic groups—young adults ages 20 to 34 and older adults ages 65 and older—are reshaping the population in rural America.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
The dividends from demographic change are not limited to the economy. PRB’s new interactive web feature shows how maturing age structures open a window of opportunity across four sectors—health, education, economic, and political.
Many countries are facing a shrinking pool of their working-age populations, often considered to be ages 15 to 64, to support the population ages 65+, jeopardizing pension guarantees and long-term health care programs for the elderly.
(2015) Summary: Maternal deaths can be prevented when women give birth in health facilities attended by skilled personnel. A study in seven West and Central African countries shows that poor women and women who live in impoverished rural or urban communities are less likely to deliver in a health facility than wealthy women and those who live in wealthy communities.
(July 2002) The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa is often described as a crisis that demands the same kind of mobilization and response that would be necessary were a country at war.
(2009) Religious diversity has been a defining characteristic of India's population for centuries. The country has no official state religion, but religion plays a central role in Indian daily life through its temple ceremonies, festivals, pilgrimages, family religious traditions, and the like. While Hinduism has been the dominant religion for several thousand years, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Jainism, and Sikhism have also flourished.