The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is a private, nonprofit organization which informs people around the world about population, health and the environment for research or academic purposes. It was founded in 1929 by Guy Irving Burch with the support of biogerontologist Raymond Pearl, who at the time had worked as both a scientist at Johns Hopkins University and as a president of the American Statistical Association.
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The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is a private, nonprofit organization which informs people around the world about population, health and the environment for research or academic purposes. It was founded in 1929 by Guy Irving Burch with the support of biogerontologist Raymond Pearl, who at the time had worked as both a scientist at Johns Hopkins University and as a president of the American Statistical Association.
The Organization focuses on 7 core themes: reproductive health and fertility, global health, children and families, world population, the environment, and population futures (which includes aging, inequality and poverty, migration and urbanization, and gender).
PRB analyzes complex demographic data and research to provide the most objective, accurate, and up-to-date population information in formats easily understood by advocates, educators, students, journalists, and decision makers. Selected PRB publications are also translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese...
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