Population Bulletin

The quarterly Population Bulletins — on subjects ranging from immigration to world health to gender — are known for their balanced, objective, and up-to-date treatment of domestic and international population research. Each Bulletin, typically 44-pages long, is devoted to one topic and includes graphs and tables, references, and suggested resources.

For more recent Bulletins, you may read full text. For many other Bulletins, we have provided an excerpt or a description of the publication.

PRB has been publishing the Population Bulletin since September 1945. Our first Bulletin, all of eight pages, discussed the labor market in the postwar world. We now are in our 58th year of publishing these Bulletins; although their size has grown to around 44 pages each, their focus has remained the same as it was in the first issue: To keep the subjects up-to-date and to discuss population trends and their implications.

Population Bulletins are $7 each. Discounts are available for bulk orders.

Transitions in World Population (252KB)
This Population Bulletin chronicles changes in world population in the last century, with a particular focus on the last 50 years. It examines the social and economic factors that affect population change, including wide disparities in income, education, and women's status within countries. It also discusses the heightened international concern since the 1950s about rapid population growth, widespread fertility declines, and the new world consensus reached in the 1990s about how best to respond to population trends. (March 2004)

View past issues of Population Bulletin:

• 2003
• 2002
• 2001
• 2000
• 1999
• 1998
• 1997
• 1996
• 1995