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A Decade of International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

(2013) Feb. 6, 2013, marks a decade since the first International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation was commemorated. An estimated 100 million to 140 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), and more than 3 million girls are at risk for cutting each year on the African continent alone.

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Contraceptive Needs of Older Nigerian Women Are Neglected

2013) Throughout the world, women ages 35 and older are often left out of conversations on contraception. Many of these women do not think they are at risk of pregnancy because of infrequent sex, marital disruption, the lack of a regular partner, or their perception that they are infertile—and thus they do not see the need to use contraception.

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Birth Rates Rising in Some Low Birth-Rate Countries

(2009) "1.57 Shock" was a popular media phrase in Japan back in 1990 after the fertility rate (TFR) fell to its lowest value ever: 1.57 lifetime births per woman, recorded for 1989.1 This was even below the 1.58 children per woman reached during the inauspicious year of the Fire Horse—1966.

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The U.S. Decennial Census and the American Community Survey: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

(April 2011) On March 24, 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau released the final 2010 Census redistricting data files for each state that will be used to redraw federal, state, and local legislative districts

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Status Update: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Kenya

Results from Kenya's 2014 Demographic and Health Survey reveal that facets of adolescent sexual and reproductive health are improving but that some areas need further attention and work.

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2013 World Population Data Sheet

(2013) Africa, by far the world’s poorest region, will record the largest amount of population growth of any world region between now and 2050.

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PRB Discuss Online. Two Decades of Data Collection on Female Genital Cutting: What Has Changed?

(2011) For more than 20 years, since the first data collection in Sudan in 1989, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) team at Macro International has been tracking the prevalence of female genital cutting (FGC), also known as female genital mutilation and female circumcision.

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Accelerating Family Planning Progress in Tanzania

Data from the latest Demographic and Health Survey show that Tanzania did not achieve its commitment to increase the contraceptive prevalence rate to 60 percent by 2015.

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