High fertility rates in AfricaWith a fertility rate of almost 7 children per woman, Niger is the country with the highest fertility rate in the world. Population growth in Niger is among the highest in the world. Lack of healthcare access, as well as food instability, political instability,...
High fertility rates in Africa and Asia, a decline in the mortality rates and an increase in the median age of the world population all contribute to the global population growth. Statistics show that the global population is subject to increase by almost 4 billion people by 2100. The global...
The population of Myanmar is actually quite difficult to pin down, due to various problems with their census-taking. Myanmar’s fertility rate has dropped significantly in the past 20 years. This is attributed to fewer people deciding to get married, high rates of illegal abortions, and high ...
Descriptive analyses were performed.Findings show that Sierra Leone (107.2), Angola (102) and Central Africa Republic (96.1) reported the highest infant mortality rate per 1000 live births. The total fertility rates in Niger (7.6), Mali (6.8) and Somalia (6.6) were higher than other ...
birth rates should have fallen. But by 2000, after the share of working women had increased by 17% in places such as America and Britain, that trend had reversed. Among rich countries fertility rates were highest in those where the most women worked (see chart). Demographers were puzzled. ...
(15–19, 20–24, 25–29, 30–34, and 35–39 years), sex (men and women), SDI (high, high-middle, middle, low-middle, and low SDI categories) classified according to quintiles of the geometric mean of average years of education, total fertility rate with an age less than 25 years...
In 2009, the efforts of the Centro de Investigación, Educación y Servicios (CIES) and Ministry of Health in Bolivia (with highest CC mortality rates in America) could give Gardasil vaccine to 3800 girls in a pilot phase and latter along with VIA training to 81,336 girls in 26 ...
diabetes had the highest increase in DALYs rate among the NCDs from 1990 to 2016, with an age-standardized increase of 39.6%25. In China, DALYs increased by 95% from 1990 to 2016 and age-standardized DALYs rates increased by 2.3%26. In the Eastern Mediterranean Region, total DALYs increased...
Fertility rates in Kenya are some of the highest in the world, with an average of about four children born for every woman. This, coupled with concerted efforts to abate the country’s rampant AIDS epidemic, have increased life expectancy. But Kenya’s relatively young government struggles to...
Italy retains one of the lowest fertility rates in the European Union, averaging 1.3 children per woman – lower than Europe’s average of 1.59. (To sustain its population, a country needs a birthrate of at least 2.1 children per woman.) The Italian government, like other European countries...