(2003) Fast-paced population growth and rampant urbanization represent some of the major population concerns in the Philippines, a country of 80 million people where the average number of children born to a woman is close to four and where a sizeable 37 percent of the population is under age 15.
(2010) Violence against women is a costly and pervasive public health problem and a violation of human rights. In Egypt, a third of women are physically abused by their husbands, according to the 2005 Egypt Demographic and Health Survey (DHS).
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Data and Trends Update 2017, produced with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, provides the latest data on the practice in 29 developing countries with representative and comparable data—although FGM/C occurs worldwide.
Project: Population and Poverty (PopPov) Research Network
Current and former PRB staff members share their tributes to two PRB greats
Nearly all future population growth will be in the world's less developed countries, and the poorest of these countries will see the greatest percentage increase.
New study finds drop in infant cases after experts promote vaccination for pregnant women
Nearly all future population growth will be in the world's less developed countries, and the poorest of these countries will see the greatest percentage increase.
