Behind the Numbers: The PRB blog on population, health, and the environment

Managing Population, Achieving Development: Malawi’s Challenge and Opportunity

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health

by Jay Gribble, vice president, International Programs Sitting in the conference hall of the Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe, Malawi's capital, as the National Leaders Conference on Family Planning, Population, and Development ... Read more..

Dramatic Differences in Childbearing by Age in U.S., Japan, and South Korea

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 Posted in Population Basics

by Carl Haub, senior demographer The very low Total Fertility Rates (TFRs, the average number of children a woman would bear in her lifetime if the birth rate of a ... Read more..

Quick Takes: Fertility, Infant Mortality, and HIV in Uganda; Fewer Babies in Czech Republic; Urban U.S. Population Growth

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 Posted in HIV/AIDS, Population Basics

by Carl Haub, senior demographer News from Uganda. Press reports quote the Bureau of Statistics of Uganda (UBOS) with leaked data from the not-yet-released 2011 Demographic and Health Survey. The country’s ... Read more..

U.S. Births Drop Below 4 Million per Year

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 Posted in Population Basics

by Carl Haub, senior demographer The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has reported that the preliminary number of births in the United States fell to 3,978,000 during the 12-month period ... Read more..

Quick Takes: Natural Decrease in Russia, Indian Weddings, Taiwan TFR, and Canadian Census

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 Posted in Marriage/Family, Population Basics

by Carl Haub, senior demographer Natural decrease improves in Russia. Russia continued its recovery in 2011 from its dramatic natural decrease (births minus deaths) of past years, but not from a ... Read more..

Learning From Navrongo

Thursday, January 19th, 2012 Posted in Health, Reproductive Health

by Eric Zuehlke, web communications manager Navrongo, a rural district in northern Ghana that faced high infant and under-5 mortality and where women averaged over 5 children each 20 years ago, ... Read more..

Quick Takes: DR Congo Fertility, More on Names in India, Family Planning in Africa, and Serbian Census Results

Thursday, November 17th, 2011 Posted in Population Basics, Reproductive Health

by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar Fertility in Democratic Republic of Congo. The 2010 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now available and reports ... Read more..

Tough Economic Times = Fewer Babies in the U.S.

Monday, October 17th, 2011 Posted in Marriage/Family

by Eric Zuehlke, web communications manager Just a quick plug for a couple of interviews with PRB's senior visiting scholar Carl Haub on the decline in the U.S. birth rate since ... Read more..

Malawi 2010 Demographic and Health Survey Shows Great Strides in Maternal and Child Health, Slow Fertility Decline

Thursday, October 13th, 2011 Posted in Health, Population Basics, Reproductive Health

by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar The Malawi 2010 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) is the latest in a regular series of DHS surveys that began in 1992. The survey interviewed ... Read more..

Rwanda’s 2010 Demographic and Health Survey Shows Remarkable Drop in Fertility and Child Mortality

Friday, October 7th, 2011 Posted in Health, Population Basics

by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar The Rwanda 2010 DHS is the latest in a regular series of DHS surveys that began in 1992, although hostilities had delayed the next survey ... Read more..