The2021 World Population Data Sheet provides the latest population, health, and environment indicators for more than 200 countries and territories, each carefully researched by PRB’s expert team of demographers and analysts. Read more about the 2021 Data Sheet:Press Release
As of August 2021, we don’t have enough information to fully understand COVID-19’s global demographic impact. The pandemic is likely the cause of an increase in crude death rates in some countries around the world and a dip in life expectancy in the United States. Its impact on fertility trends has generated speculation and concern globally, but reliable data on how COVID-19 is influencing fertility are limited and continue to change as the pandemic unfolds.
Globally, the total fertility rate (TFR)—or average lifetime births per woman—has declined from 3.2 in 1990 to 2.3 in 2020. However, large variations exist, ranging from 4.7 in sub-Saharan Africa to 1.3 in East Asia and Southern Europe. Key pre-pandemic trends include a significant trend toward delayed childbearing across high-income countries, while the proportion of births to adolescent mothers ages 15-19 remains substantial in many low-income countries.
Toshiko Kaneda
Toshiko Kaneda joined PRB in 2004. Kaneda has 20 years of experience conducting research and demographic analysis. She has written numerous policy publications and peer-reviewed articles on noncommunicable diseases, population aging, health care access, and reproductive health and family planning. Kaneda directs data analysis for the World Population Data Sheet and provides technical guidance on demographic and statistical methods within PRB, as well as to external partners. She also directs PRB’s U.S. Policy Communications Training Program, which trains U.S. doctoral students to translate scientific research findings for non-scientific audiences. The program is supported by the National Institutes of Health. Prior to joining PRB, Kaneda was a Bernard Berelson Fellow at the Population Council. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was also a predoctoral trainee at the Carolina Population Center.
Charlotte Greenbaum
Charlotte Greenbaum joined International Programs as a policy analyst in 2017. Her focus is on reproductive health, family planning, and demography, with a particular interest in equity and reproductive health among youth. Greenbaum previously worked with the nongovernmental organization Tostan in Senegal as a volunteer assistant to the Reinforcement of Parental Practices project. She also worked as an intern at the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Lesotho. Greenbaum holds a master of science in global health and population from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a bachelor’s degree in human biology and French from Stanford University, with a concentration in global disparities in women’s health. She is proficient in French.
Carl Haub
Carl Haub has been associated with PRB since 1979. Despite his retirement 10 years ago, he still kindly provides his expertise to the annual World Population Data Sheet. While at PRB, Haub worked on projects in the United States and abroad, including Belarus, Germany, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Seychelles, and Vietnam. Much of his time at PRB was devoted to answering questions from journalists and reporters on demographic issues. He provided briefings to journalists at newspapers throughout the United States and Europe and gave lectures at meetings and press conferences. Haub holds a bachelor’s degree in government and a master’s degree in demography from Georgetown University.
