2008 World Population Data Sheet
(2008) The demographic divide—the inequality in the population and health profiles of rich and poor countries—is widening.
(2008) The demographic divide—the inequality in the population and health profiles of rich and poor countries—is widening.
(2002) In a move that marks the Caribbean's success in various spheres of socioeconomic activity, international funding agencies are reducing their financial support for the region's sexual and reproductive health programs.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Explore PRB and PACE’s work at the intersection of digital health technologies and family planning programming.
(2009) Whether young people will gain access to education and employment opportunities over the coming years and decades is one of the major questions facing developing countries with large youth populations.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
Significant undercounts in the 2020 Census could have serious consequences for underrepresented groups and individual states.
(2010) U.S.-born Latinos and foreign-born Latinos face widely different social and economic experiences in the United States.
(2012) For some time now, Brazil, Russia, India, and China have been grouped together under the acronym BRIC. The BRICs are described as countries at the same stage of economic development, but not yet at the point where they would be considered more developed countries. The BRIC position argues that, since the four countries are "developing rapidly," their combined economies could eclipse the collective economies of the current richest countries of the world by 2050.
(2006) Undernutrition remains a devastating problem in many developing countries—affecting over 815 million people and causing more than one-half of all child deaths.1 But while governments in these countries continue efforts to reduce hunger, that focus neglects the growing rate of overweight and obesity in the developing world.2 Increasingly, health systems in poor countries are simultaneously confronting under- and overnutrition—not only at the national level, but also within households.
Malnutrition plays a role in the deaths of about 16,000 young children every day, virtually all of them in the developing world.