Insights

For the past 30 years, PRB has held the annual Policy Communication Fellows Program for doctoral students from developing countries to learn concrete skills to communicate their research for policy audiences. This year, the program was jointly hosted in Lilongwe, Malawi, by PRB and the African In…

Each year, PRB releases its World Population Data Sheet, a globally recognized report offering population projections and fertility rates for almost all countries around the world. A public information product accessible to anyone, the Data Sheet reaches tens of thousands of people worldwide who cou…

I recently attended a U.S. Policy Communications workshop held by Population Reference Bureau to help prepare graduate students to influence policy and practice through effective communication. Here I share some of what I learned to encourage others to think about how they might use their research t…

At PRB, we work to bridge the gap between research and policy, which includes using social media to disseminate our research online, free of charge. Because social media can be accessed by anyone, anywhere, using it assists us in achieving our mission of informing people around the world about the l…

The data show that youth worldwide face a growing risk from noncommunicable diseases.

We asked our International Programs staff about the resources they have found useful in their work lately. Their answers run the gamut from sources on how to use storytelling to improve knowledge sharing to go-to sites for looking up data in the field and checking a country s legislation on reproduc…

During April, PRB staff participated in the 21-day Drawdown EcoChallenge, focused on carbon reduction. Participants chose challenges identified on the EcoChallenge website (Small actions add up to real change!) and earned points for completing them, engaging in their communities, and sharing their s…

The data show that a large proportion of the global population lives in urban areas.

Advocates, service providers, and governments are increasingly focused on improving access to and use of contraception among young people.

On March 8, 2018, the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (EAS), in partnership with Population Reference Bureau, celebrated International Women s Day in Addis Ababa with a roundtable discussion on social norms and gender inequality in Ethiopia. As Ethiopia enters a demographic transition and its age stru…

This question is more than a matter of personal budget for some lucky reporter. It s also one of many exercises introduced during a recent PRB training to help journalists better understand and interpret data for their audiences. The world of family planning is data-dense, and numbers around importa…

The data show that incarceration rates for women in the United States are up sharply even though crime rates are falling.