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What if the Resilience of Our Societies Began With Care?

Invisible care work has become a collective issue, and the data confirms it: It's time to integrate into our vision of growth what actually keeps our societies going.

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New PRB Analysis Offers Insights as India’s Population Surpasses China’s, Notes Overlooked Rise of Sub-Saharan Africa

PRB provides analysis on why the demographic changes over the next 30 years matter for the global economy, the global labor force, and the United States.

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Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health

2016 World Population Data Sheet

The world population will reach 9.9 billion in 2050, up 33 percent from an estimated 7.4 billion now, according to projections included in the 2016 World Population Data Sheet from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB).

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Democratic Republic of Congo and Madagascar Connect Family Planning With Environmental Health

(2012) Remote rural communities in developing countries typically face the related challenges of extreme poverty, poor health, and environmental degradation. And population growth often exacerbates these challenges.

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Despite Challenges, Ending Early Marriage in Ethiopia Is Possible

(2011) Ethiopia has one of the highest rates of early marriage in the world, with one in two girls marrying before her 18th birthday and one in five girls marrying before the age of 15.

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PRB Discuss Online: Is Sub-Saharan Africa an Exception to the Global Trend Toward Smaller Families?

(2008) Sub-Saharan Africa remains the "last frontier" of fertility decline. Throughout the developing world (including China), the average number of children per woman has dropped from around six in 1965 to just about three today.

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PRB Discuss Online: The Tsunami, Six Years Later: Results of a Large-Scale Longitudinal Study in Aceh, Indonesia

(2010) will mark the sixth anniversary of the earthquake that spawned a tsunami on the coastlines of countries bordering the Indian Ocean.

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