Population & Reproductive Health

This is a joint post with Alex Ezeh. Maybe you missed it–but this past Sunday, November 18, was African Statistics Day. It’s the 12th celebration of the day, and a good time to note that substantial gaps remain in the availability and quality of data on basic indicators of human well-b...

Between 1970 and 2010, most emerging countries achieved impressive gains in contraceptive coverage. As a result, their fertility has declined, their population growth rate has slowed down, and many of these countries have been able to capture the economic benefits of the demographic dividend, which...

We all know poverty is undesirable. Not only because of its effects on quality of life, but poverty also has intergenerational impacts and leads to negative health outcomes. In general, the poor's demographic characteristics can vary quite significantly from the wealthy—including shorter life expe...