Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
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8 Billion People: A Milestone by the Numbers
As Earth's population reaches the eight-billion milestone, we put it into context.
$5 More Per Person Annually Could Save Millions of Mothers and Children
(2014) Recent research by a group of health systems experts details how a 2 percent increase in current spending for maternal and child health can save 147 million children, prevent 32 million stillbirths, and avert 5 million maternal deaths by 2035.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Interactive. 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. A country’s likelihood of making substantial gains in each of these four sectors is tied to its age structure.
Kenya: The Demographics of a Country in Turmoil
(2008) Opposition to Kenya's recent election resulted in days of deadly riots. Kenya's demographic trends provide some background to the current situation, revealing both advances and continuing challenges.
Children in Cambodia Face High Mortality Rate
(December 2002) Despite major gains in child survival in the last 25 years, more than 10 million children around the world die each year before age 5, often from diseases and conditions that are preventable or easily treated.