Chart: With increasing secondary school enrollment of girls, adolescent fertility has declined

Girls enrolled in school are less likely to become pregnant as teenagers

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Divyanshi Wadhwa
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Farmers working in their fields in Guinea

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Uganda National Panel Survey, 2013-14: hours spent across paid and unpaid activities in the last week

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Chart - Nearly 270 million children in 89 economies benefited from school feeding programs

School feeding programs are often pro-poor

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Divyanshi Wadhwa
Nepal Data Literacy Program - Group Photo

What does literacy look like in the age of data? Initial reflections from the Nepal Data Literacy Program

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Chart:Stunting in children is more prevalent where milk prices are high

The high price of healthy food … and the low price of unhealthy food

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Poverty Map Hand Drawn Image

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Chart: With increasing secondary school enrollment of girls, adolescent fertility has declined

Girls enrolled in school are less likely to become pregnant as teenagers

Chart - Nearly 270 million children in 89 economies benefited from school feeding programs

School feeding programs are often pro-poor

The world’s largest employer is the Services sector

Where can the youth find employment?

Remittance flows to Low- and Middle-Income countries (excluding China) are now larger than FDI and Development Assistance

Money sent home by workers now largest source of external financing in low- and middle-income countries (excluding China)

mini grids top 10 countries

Chart: 47 million people are connected to a mini grid

Half of the world's refugee population resides in only six countries

Newly released data show refugee numbers at record levels

Children who work only and don't attend school are mostly from Sub-Saharan African countries

Chart: Globally, 168 million children remain trapped in child labor

Litter found in coastal cleanups in selected Caribbean countries (items/km)

Caribbean beaches are littered with single-use plastics

East Asia and Pacific has the highest prevalence of smoking among men, but one of the lowest among women

Men smoke 5 times more than women

Fewer than 4 of every 10 STEM graduates are girls.

There are fewer female than male STEM graduates in 107 of 114 economies

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Measles vaccine coverage at 85% globally

The population in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to grow 10-fold between 1960 and 2050

World’s population will continue to grow and will reach nearly 10 billion by 2050

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Woman works in a small shop in Ghana

Unleashing the power of women entrepreneurs: Breaking down the legal barriers

Countries with laws protecting women from sexual harassment in employment (%), WBL2009 and WBL2018

Creating safer workplaces: how far have we come?

Average score on Going Places Indicator by region, WBL 2018

Moving freely: Moving closer to gender equality

Nebiba Mohammed, 28, works at the Shints textile factory, one of several textile manufacturing plants in Ethiopia's recently opened Bole Lemi industrial park, some 45 minutes from the Addis Ababa city center. Photo: © Stephan Gladieu/World Bank

The next steps for employment equality in Ethiopia

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The unequal burden for new mothers in the Caribbean

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Protecting women from domestic violence: a key piece of the gender equality puzzle

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Why it's never too early to think about getting old

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