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The Crossover in Female-Male College Enrollment Rates
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Inform. Empower. Advance. The Crossover in Female-Male College Enrollment Rates. Mark Mather and Dia Adams. This is part of a series of PRB articles about the science and engineering (S&E) workforce in the United States, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Additional state-level data on the S&E labor force will be available this spring, in PRB’s. 2007 U.S. Population Data Sheet. Proportion of 18-to-24-Year-Old Men and Women Enrolled in College, 1967-2005. Several reasons have been cited for this cr...
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¿Qué fue El Cairo? La promesa y la realidad de la Conferencia
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Inform. Empower. Advance. Qué fue El Cairo? La promesa y la realidad de la Conferencia. Lori S. Ashford. El Programa de Acción. El Programa de Acción de El Cairo es ambicioso. Contiene más de 200 recomendaciones, con 5 objetivos a 20 años en las áreas de salud, desarrollo y bienestar social (ver el Recuadro 1). El Programa de Acción de El Cairo también definió por primera vez la salud reproductiva en un documento normativo internacional. Dicha definición declara que "la sa...Después de la conferen...
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Evidence Can Help Make Sustainable Development Investments Strategic
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Inform. Empower. Advance. Evidence Can Help Make Sustainable Development Investments Strategic. Investing in Women Has Economic Benefits. Delaying childbearing was shown to improve educational and health outcomes for mothers and children (see Table). Teen Mother Educational Attainment, Cape Town. Years of education completed by age 20. Percent dropping out of school. Percent successfully completed high school by age 20. A teen mother is defined as a woman who has her first child by age 20. A nonteen ...
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The West Bank and Gaza: A Population Profile
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Inform. Empower. Advance. The West Bank and Gaza: A Population Profile. Michael R. Fischbach. April 2002) The West Bank and Gaza are unique entities in today's world. Although parts of the two areas consist of a series of autonomous, Palestinian-governed regions, Israel and Israeli forces surround them. The West Bank is approximately the size of Delaware while Gaza (also called the Gaza Strip) is approximately twice the size of Washington, D.C. A Young and Growing Population. Births per 1,000 population*.
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U.S. Has World's Highest Incarceration Rate
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Inform. Empower. Advance. US Has World's Highest Incarceration Rate. Tyjen Tsai and Paola Scommegna. Men make up 90 percent of the prison and local jail population, and they have an imprisonment rate 14 times higher than the rate for women. And these men are overwhelmingly young: Incarceration rates are highest for those in their 20s and early 30s. Prisoners also tend to be less educated: The average state prisoner has a 10th grade education, and about 70 percent have not completed high school. Louisiana...
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Population Reference Bureau
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Inform. Empower. Advance. Interagency Gender Working Group. Center for Public Information on Population Research. How population dynamics impacts economics. Investing in human capital. US Census and ACS. 1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW. Washington, DC 20009. US Census and ACS. Hong Kong, SAR. Congo, Dem. Rep. of. Federated States of Micronesia. Sao Tome and Principe. St Vincent and the Grenadines. PRB in the News. PRB 2015 Annual Report Available in Digital Format.
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What Is Women's Empowerment?
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Inform. Empower. Advance. What Is Women's Empowerment? August 2015) PRB's Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs, associate vice president of International Programs and program director of Gender, explains the meaning of women's empowerment and why it matters for global development. 2016 World Population Data Sheet. Check out our new data visualization tool. Family Planning and Human Rights What's the Connection and Why Is It Important? Intimate Partner Violence and Family Planning: Opportunities for Action.
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Narrowing Old-Age Gender Gap in U.S. Linked to Smoking Trends
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Inform. Empower. Advance. Narrowing Old-Age Gender Gap in U.S. Linked to Smoking Trends. July 2015) Women live longer than men in the United States and in nearly every country in the world. But in the United States and many other developed countries, this gender gap is narrowing, resulting in an increase in the number of men, relative to women, surviving to old age. Similar declines in the gender gap in life expectancy have been reported in several countries in Europe. In France, the narrowing gap ha...
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Gender Equality, Inside and Out: Gender Mainstreaming in International Development Organizations
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Inform. Empower. Advance. Gender Equality, Inside and Out: Gender Mainstreaming in International Development Organizations. Is a senior policy analyst in International Programs at PRB. 2016 World Population Data Sheet. Check out our new data visualization tool. Contribute any amount quickly and securely. Follow @PRBdata on Twitter. The 76.4 million baby boomers represent close to one-quarter of the estimated 2012 U.S. population of 314 million. Interagency Gender Working Group. Investing in human capital.
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What's Driving the Decline in U.S. Population Growth?
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Inform. Empower. Advance. What's Driving the Decline in U.S. Population Growth? May 2012) Between 2010 and 2011, the U.S. population increased by 0.7 percent, after averaging 0.9 percent growth each year from 2000 through 2010. During the past few years, however, net international migration is estimated to have accounted for only 30 percent of the annual population growth. Slower Latino and Asian Population Growth. Because most immigrants to the United States arrive from Latin America or Asia, the declin...
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