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Global Policies and Programs Advancing Girls’ Education
The steady global progress in girls’ education over the past three decades did not happen by accident. It reflects a sustained, if imperfect, effort by national governments,
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Women in Higher Education and STEM Fields
One of the more remarkable demographic shifts in global education over the past half-century has been the reversal of the gender gap in higher education enrollment. In much of the
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The Economic and Social Case for Educating Women
Economists and development researchers have spent decades documenting what may be one of the most consistently replicated findings in the social sciences: investing in girls’
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Barriers to Girls’ Education Around the World
Despite decades of progress, an estimated 122 million girls remain out of school worldwide, according to UNESCO figures, concentrated disproportionately in sub-Saharan Africa and p
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The History and Evolution of Women’s Education
For most of recorded history, formal education was treated as the near-exclusive province of men. Women were frequently barred from schools and universities altogether, or steered
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Population Policy and Family Planning
Governments have attempted to influence the size and growth rate of their populations for centuries, but the tools, goals, and ethical frameworks surrounding population policy have
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Population Growth and Environmental Sustainability
The relationship between human population and the natural environment has been debated by scientists, economists, and policymakers for well over two centuries, since the English sc
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Urbanization and the Shifting Population Map
In 2007, a quiet demographic milestone passed largely unnoticed by most of the world: for the first time in human history, more people lived in cities than in rural areas. That thr
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Population Aging Around the World
While much of the twentieth century’s population conversation centered on rapid growth, the defining demographic story of the twenty-first century is aging. As birth rates fa
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World Population Growth and Trends
For most of human history, population growth was so slow that it was barely perceptible within a single lifetime. It took until roughly the year 1800 for the world’s populati