How Does Wealth Affect Health in Sub-Saharan Africa? A PRB Infographic

This infographic examines two African countries: Niger, classi ed by the World Bank as a low-income country; and Ghana, a lower-middle-income country and how health and well-being differs for both.

PRB's Population and Economic Development 2012 Data Sheet, with 21 indicators from 140 low- and middle-income countries, presents a complex picture of countries still struggling with economic challenges and inequalities, while others are making significant headway.

PopPov researcher Kelly Jones of the International Food Policy Research Institute discusses research findings from Ghana that show how the Mexico City Policy (the "Global Gag Rule") had unintended consequences for induced abortion and unintended pregnancies.

The PopPov network is a group of global researchers and funders that is interested in how population dynamics impact economic outcomes, focusing on how population policies can be used for poverty reduction.

In a PRB Discuss Online, Carl Haub, senior demographer at PRB, answered questions from participants about what "poverty" and "middle class" in India really mean as standards of living, and what implications these may have for India's economic and demographic future. Read a transcript of the question…

PRB's analysis of data from the American Community Survey shows that the size of the U.S. science and engineering (S&E) labor force has declined from its peak at the turn of the 21st century.

Sprawling urban areas most obviously demonstrate the environmental impact of migration. But migration also affects the environment of the communities from which the migrants come, and the effects may actually protect forests.

(January 2012) The 6th Annual PopPov Conference was held in Accra, Ghana, in January 2012. In this video, participants shared their reflections on the conference, the importance of the PopPov Network and its research, and how to connect research findings to policy. Video: Sixth Annual PopPov …

In this video, participants at the 6th annual PopPov Conference share their reflections on the conference, the importance of the PopPov Network and its research, and how to connect research findings to policy.

The STATE Child Well-Being Index—developed for the Foundation for Child Development by demographers William O'Hare of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Mark Mather and Genevieve Dupuis of the Population Reference Bureau—provides the most-comprehensive measure of children's quality-o…

Working mothers with a bachelor's degree have gained increasing access to paid leave in recent decades, while women without high school degrees have seen no change, reported Nancy Folbre, a University of Massachusetts economist.

The slow recovery from the recession has fallen hard on America's working poor families, increasing their numbers by 125,000 in 2010 to more than 10 million families, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.