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

The Four Dividends: How Age Structure Change Can Benefit Development

This web feature expands the concept of the demographic dividend to project four potential sets of benefits—in addition to economic growth, it outlines benefits in child survival, education, and political stability.

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Change Comes Slowly for Religious Diversity in India

(2009) Religious diversity has been a defining characteristic of India's population for centuries. The country has no official state religion, but religion plays a central role in Indian daily life through its temple ceremonies, festivals, pilgrimages, family religious traditions, and the like. While Hinduism has been the dominant religion for several thousand years, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Jainism, and Sikhism have also flourished.

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In Harm’s Way: Hurricanes, Population Trends, and Environmental Change

2004) In September 2004, four devastating hurricanes and tropical storms killed more than 1,500 Haitians, destroyed roughly 90 percent of Grenada, and wreaked billions of dollars of damage on the southern United States.

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Life on Hold: How the Coronavirus Is Affecting Young People’s Major Life Decisions

(2020)The past two decades have been tumultuous for the United States. During the first 20 years of the 21st century, the nation experienced a major terrorist attack, a housing market meltdown, a severe economic recession, a significant downturn in the stock market, and a pandemic that led to the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression.

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

2014 World Population Data Sheet (PDF)

PRB’s World Population Data Sheet is an annual report on the world’s demographic, health, and environmental progress and challenges.

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PRB Discuss Online: The Fight to Stop Honor Killings

(2009) "Honor Killings" claim the lives of at least 5,000 women each year in traditional societies around the world; many more women live under the fear of these attacks.

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Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act

2014 World Population Data Sheet

PRB’s World Population Data Sheet is an annual report on the world’s demographic, health, and environmental progress and challenges.

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Ethiopia Makes Progress Toward a Demographic Dividend

Over the last two decades, Ethiopia has experienced an impressive decline in fertility, enjoyed strong economic growth, and made great strides in poverty reduction.

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