(2008) Media reports on the "exploding" middle class in India would lead any reader to believe that Indian society is undergoing a top-to-bottom transformation into a society of Western-style consumers. A recent Business Week article quoted a McKinsey Global Institute study that claimed that India, in one generation, would become a nation of upwardly mobile middle-class households, consuming goods ranging from high-end cars to designer clothing.
Among assisted living residents, those with dementia spent more time alone and sleeping in 2020 than their peers without the condition
(2003) The lingering effects of a long civil war, climatic changes, and infectious diseases represent major threats to life in the southern African nation of Mozambique, where 17.5 million people live, the vast majority in rural poverty.
(2002) Environ 13 % des décès maternels à l'échelle mondiale sont le résultat de complications d'avortements dangereux1, et dans certaines régions ce chiffre représente jusqu'à un tiers de ces décès.
(2009) A new demographic and health survey (DHS) from Egypt shows that the number of children per woman has declined, from 3.5 in 2000 to about 3.0 in 2008.
Family planning is critical for the health of women and their families, and it can accelerate a country's progress toward reducing poverty and achieving development goals. Because of its importance, universal access to reproductive health services, including family planning, is identified as one of the targets of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Fertility rates in the United States dropped to their lowest level in recorded history, with women having an average of 1.7 births in their lifetime. That’s one of the key findings in PRB’s 2019 World Population Data Sheet.
(2010) The phrase "1.57 Shock" was widely used in Japan 20 years ago in reaction to the lowest fertility rate in the country's history.