The 2007 World Population Data Sheet

The Population Reference Bureau exists to educate “people around the world about population, health, and the environment,” with the purpose of enhancing the well-being of today’s and future generations.

The organization’s “2007 World Population Data Sheet” contains a wealth of information on, for example, countries’ population sizes and life expectancies. One of the most important points made in the paper is that “recent data from many countries have shown that women with at least a secondary-level education eventually give birth to one-third to one-half as many children as women with no formal education.”

Though the organization covers issues related to fertility rates, it presents a great deal of data on other matters pertaining to the welfare of people across the world.