Africa has the youngest population in the world. Among the 35 countries with the lowest median age worldwide, only three fall outside the continent. In 2023, the median age in Niger was 15.1 years, the youngest country. This means that at this age point, half of the population was younge...
In 2025, there are six countries, all in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the average woman of childbearing age can expect to have between 5-6 children throughout their lifetime. In fact, of the 20 countries in the world with the highest fertility rates, Afghanistan and Yemen are the only countr...
It affects an estimated 45 million children under the age of 5 years (6.8%) worldwide, with more than half of these children living in South Asia2. Children are considered wasted if their weight-for-length z-score (WLZ) is more than two standard deviations below the median of ...
The effects of gross domestic product and corruption were virtually identical in people whose household income was below and above the median. Conclusion: Societal measures of prosperity and corruption, but not income inequalities, were associated with health independently of individual-level socioeconomic...
Overall, the models had good predictive ability in cross validation over 2015 to 2019, Supplementary Table 1. The highest correlation between observed and predicted was observed for age group 80 years or older, with the medians and 95% credible intervals (i.e. 0.95 probability that the true ...
As an illustration, the results imply that for the country with the highest UAI-rate in the sample (Greece), an increase in real per capita income with $ 1.000 would imply a decrease of the business ownership rate with 0.61 percentage points, while for the country with the lowest uncertainty...
We also compared mean height and BMI with the median of the WHO growth reference12 (appendix pp 90–93) at each age from 5 to 19 years. We used the WHO reference because it provides growth curves for both height and BMI and is used for monitoring in most countries. We started our ...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic hit South America badly with multiple waves. Different COVID-19 variants have been storming across the region, leading to more severe infections and deaths even in places with high vaccination coverage. This study aims to as
Childhood malnutrition is associated with high morbidity and mortality globally1. Undernourished children are more likely to experience cognitive, physical, and metabolic developmental impairments that can lead to later cardiovascular disease, reduced in
1d) for overall anemia among WRA across LMICs to simultaneously show the best- and worst-performing districts as defined by both of these measures over the study period (Fig. 1c). Much of Central and South America had districts with the lowest levels of prevalence of overall anemia in 2000...