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Top 10 Countries Closing Gender Gap
Since 2006, the World Economic Forum has issued a Global Gender Gap Index to review gender-based disparities around the world and track progress in closing the gap in four areas: educational attainment, health, economic participation, and political empowerment.
PRB Discuss Online: Managing Unauthorized Migration
(2008) Unauthorized migration is a major issue in the United States and many other countries, sometimes generating intense publicity and debate.
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
Addressing Misconceptions About Family Planning in the Philippines to Drive Change
These infographics, fact sheet, and videos products will be used to help address misinformation about contraceptive methods and convince policymakers to fund family planning services.
Premature Births Help Explain Higher U.S. Infant Mortality Rate
(2009) The United States—one of the world's wealthiest countries—consistently has higher infant mortality rates than most other developed countries. In 2005, 29 countries had lower rates, including Cuba and Poland.
Three States Account for Nearly Half of U.S. Population Growth
(2015) California, Florida, and Texas made up a combined 27 percent of the U.S. population in 2015 but accounted for 48 percent of U.S. population growth between 2014 and 2015, according to new Census Bureau estimates.
Domestic Violence in Developing Countries: An Intergenerational Crisis
(2004) A new comparative study using nationally representative information on domestic violence in nine developing countries finds that women whose fathers abused their mothers are twice as likely to suffer domestic abuse themselves.
Gender and Equity in Access to Health Care Services in the Middle East and North Africa
(2006)The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has experienced major improvements in health over the past few decades.1 Today, on average, a girl born in Egypt is expected to live for 72 years—nearly 20 years longer than if she had been born in the early 1970s—owing in large part to a 70 percent improvement in infant mortality rates over the same time period.