Sub-Saharan Africa

The growing gender gap in higher education – in enrollment and graduation rates – has been a topic of conversation and debate in recent months.

Some Americans clearly long for a more avowedly religious and explicitly Christian country, a March survey finds. However, a clear majority of Americans do not accept these views.

Social hostilities involving religion, including violence and harassment against religious groups by private individuals and groups, declined in 2019, according to Pew Research Center’s 12th annual study of global restrictions on religion, which examines 198 countries and territories.

17% of the global population could be considered middle income in 2020. Most people were either low income (51%) or poor (10%).

Putting minimum wage policy in the hands of lawmakers is one of several ways in which the U.S. approach stands apart from other countries.

The unauthorized immigrant population’s size and composition has ebbed and flowed significantly over the past 30 years.

The global middle class consisted of 54 million fewer people in 2020 than the number projected prior to the onset of the pandemic.

Women in 56 countries experienced social hostilities due to clothing that was deemed to violate religious or secular dress norms.

In some countries – particularly in a segment of West and Central Africa – polygamy is frequently legal and widespread.

In international surveys, Donald Trump has generally received lower ratings than either of his two predecessors.