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Birth Rate Trends in Low-Fertility Countries

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International Women’s Day: 100 Years

(2011) March 8, 2011, marks the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. The past 100 years has witnessed much progress but there remains an unfinished agenda in many regions of the world. International Women's Day traces its roots back to the second International Conference of Working Women held in Copenhagen in 1910.

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Hidden Suffering: Disabilities From Pregnancy and Childbirth in Less Developed Countries

(August 2002) Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are a leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age (ages 15 to 44) in less developed countries.

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Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health

Wallchart. Mutilations génitales féminines/ Excision : Données et tendances, Mise à jour de 2017

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Data and Trends Update 2017, produced with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, provides the latest data on the practice in 29 developing countries with representative and comparable data—although FGM/C occurs worldwide.

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Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

Social Support, Networks, and Happiness

As Americans live longer, researchers have begun to investigate how people can move into old age not just healthier, but also happier.

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2012 World Population Data Sheet

Nearly all future population growth will be in the world's less developed countries, and the poorest of these countries will see the greatest percentage increase.

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Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)

Why Is the U.S. Birth Rate Declining?

In 2020, the U.S. TFR dropped to 1.64, the lowest level ever recorded.

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Project: Evidence to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

Report. Reflections From Five Years of Research on FGM/C

From 2015 to 2019, the African-led consortium developed innovative research methods and uncovered new evidence about the practice and how it is changing—focusing on families and communities, and health and legal systems—in eight countries: Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, and Sudan.

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Domestic Violence High in Egypt, Affecting Women’s Reproductive Health

(2010) Violence against women is a costly and pervasive public health problem and a violation of human rights. In Egypt, a third of women are physically abused by their husbands, according to the 2005 Egypt Demographic and Health Survey (DHS).

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