In 2023, the poverty rate of the United States was around 11.4 percent. Louisiana was the state with the highest poverty rate, at 18.9 percent. Poverty rates in the United States are higher than in many parts of the world, andminority groups are much more likely to be living in povertywh...
…Already, America’s elderly suffer a far higher rate of poverty – defined as half the median income or lower – than their peers in other high-income countries. …the old-age poverty rate in the US is 23%, compared to about 15% in the United Kingdom, 12% in Canada, 4.4% in ...
In collaboration withMelinda Judge,Chitra Saraswati, Claire Perry,Jane Heyworth, andPeter Le Souëfof theUniversity of Western Australia‘sSchool of Medicineand theTelethon Kids Institute, we found that higher baby death rates and larger household sizes (as an indicator of population density) lead ...
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Leave-one-out analyses, in both the forward and backward directions, showed that the direction of the effect of each SNP is consistent with the direction of the overall causal estimate. In addition, for most of the analyses, a change in the estimations of less than 10% was obtained by lea...
country classifications (low income, lower middle income, upper middle income, and high income) to represent different growth rates in different consumption groups. For instance, we use the average growth rate in low income countries (i.e., <$1045 per capita per year) for the <$1.90 and $...
Thirdly, geospatial analyses and data visualization techniques can be employed in the risk mapping to identify potential hot spots of AMR, such that variations in antimicrobial susceptibility rates can be investigated at the local/ neighborhood level. Fourthly, proper dissemination of risk mapping is ...
Life expectancy in patients with advanced schistosomiasis and general population Full size image Fig. 2 The loss years and loss rates of life expectancy in patients with advanced schistosomiasis Full size image Decomposition of age-specific mortality contribution Results of age-specific mortality contributi...
With about 85% of their population living in flood zones, Vietnam’s Red River Delta provinces have some of the world’s highest exposure rates, and are the country’s main population and economic centers. Economic risk, poverty, and flood exposure Using the World...
After doing my usual pre-travel research (expected weather, electrical plug usage and currency exchange rates) I tried to amply prepare for a continuous trip between India and Switzerland on one ticket: not too many clothes in my suitcase, but enough for the climate disparity. At the time I...