only the poverty rate for the elderly has continued to decline, while the rates among children and the working aged have increased. For the subsequent OECD analysis by age group, Denmark and Sweden were outliers in having the lowest poverty rates among children and the working aged, while Mexic...
The World Bank, which has been tracking and analyzingglobal poverty rate statisticsin every country for more than 40 years, has examined the national poverty lines of the world’s poorest countries and set the extreme poverty threshold at making less than $2.15 per day. But what does poverty ...
Mounting evidence is pointing to the world having entered a sixth mass extinction. If the current rate of extinction continues we could lose most species by 2200. The implication for human health and wellbeing is dire, but not inevitable. In the timeline of fossil evidence going right back to...
This is an infuriatingly obtuse view of what it means to be poor in this country — the soul-rending omnipresence of worry and fear, of weariness and fatigue. This can be the view only of those who have not known — or have long forgotten — what poverty truly means. “Easy” is a ...
The map shows the Coneval data for changes in the poverty rate between 2010 and 2012 by state. It appears that poverty levels increased in many of Mexico’s more prosperous areas and in the longer established industrial areas, as well as in almost all areas where tourism is important. Pover...
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In addition, the age-standardized DALYs rate of schistosomiasis, cystic echinococcosis, and cysticercosis decreased with the rise of SDI at the country scale, while no significant change observed in FBTs (Fig. S6). From 1990 to 2021, the ASPR of schistosomiasis showed a downward trend with ...
For countries that exceed this threshold, it recommends interim targets at 10, 15, 25, and 35 μg/m3, corresponding to a linearly increasing mortality rate (Table 2). At higher concentrations, the concentration-response function of mortality may not be linear37. For each country, we assign...
rate of lower middle income countries for the consumption group of $2.97–8.44 per day; or (2) to use country specific predictions but ignore the changing composition of expenditure groups (population growth rate by country). Both estimates have shortcomings. Applying the national average growth ...
The study focuses on Senegal, a sub-Saharan country with a high poverty rate. The first data set are 11 billion calls and texts from more than 9 million Senegalese mobile phone users. All information is anonymous and it captures how, when, where and with whom people communicate with. ...