Kenya’s Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development Policy: Implementation Progress and Barriers
(2013) Developed in 2003, the Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development (ARHD) Policy was the first in Kenya to focus on improving the reproductive health and well-being of adolescents and youth.1 Ten years since the policy was developed, Kenya has experienced much advancement and change in the social, economic, and political environment for ARHD.
(2006) With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Population Reference Bureau has published five chartbooks on HIV/AIDS for the country of India and for the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.
(2001) Disability is an ambiguous demographic, but one that is unambiguously increasing. Socioeconomic trends such as aging and other factors have contributed to the growth of the population categorized as disabled, making disability an important issue for policymakers, even though its definition is often a point of contention.
(2008) Extremely low birth rates in most of Europe have fueled concerns about population decline, yet one segment of the continent's population—Muslims—continues to grow. The increasing number and visibility of Muslims in Western Europe, juxtaposed with the low fertility among non-Muslims, has led some Europeans to worry that the region will eventually have a Muslim majority, fundamentally changing Western European society.
After delays due to the pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau has finally released a new batch of data from the 2020 Census. While the Demographic and Housing Characteristics data isn’t a current snapshot, it still gives us the most comprehensive and granular information available for the U.S. population.
On Feb. 3, 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau released the first detailed demographic data for states and local areas from the 2010 Census. Racial and ethnic characteristics of the total and voting-age populations were released for geographic areas down to the city block level.