Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
(2020) PRB’s World Population Data Sheet is an excellent reference and data analysis tool. Teachers are encouraged to have their students use the Data Sheet for a variety of topics and activities.
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
(2014) In 2012, the government of Kenya passed a landmark policy to manage its rapid population growth. The new population policy aims to reduce the number of children a woman has over her lifetime from 5 in 2009 to 3 by 2030.2
(2015) Three presentations about increased childbearing outside marriage, more parents with children from more than one partner, and a shrinking share of married people in the U.S. population have brought new complexity to U.S. family life, and risks for the health and well-being of children and parents.
(1999) The 20th century has witnessed the transformation of the United States from a predominately white population rooted in Western culture to a society with a rich array of racial and ethnic minorities.
(2009) Recent political developments in Iran highlight the country's demographic and social shifts over the past 20 years. One in three Iranians is between the ages of 15 and 29.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Today's Research on Aging, Issue 27: For most people, the probability of having a physical or mental disability increases with age, as does the number of ailments they might have at any time—particularly after age 70.
(2015) In the mid-1990s, I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a village in Niger, a West African country consistently ranked as one of the poorest in the world. I lived in a mud hut, learned a local language, made lasting friendships and did interesting work.
(2014) This infographic uses three main projections produced by the UN Population Division to illustrate how assumptions can produce significantly different results over time.