This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. From India to Bolivia, it was always the women who knew exactly how much water their family needed. When photographer ...

Inequalities that use < or > symbols are plotted with a dashed line to show that the line is not included in the region. Inequalities that use ≤ or ≥ symbols are plotted with a solid line to ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

The severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is clearly seen in the numbers: more than 3.1 million deaths and rising, 120 million people pushed into extreme poverty, and a massive global recession. As ...

Women’s rights have come a long way; there was a time when women couldn’t vote, own property or serve in the military. Imagine that! Since then, there have been countless impressive female ...

Covid-19 broke the charts. Decades from now, the pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today: an unmistakable spike, dip or jolt that officially began for ...

Does it matter what is happening to world income distribution (among all 6.2 billion people, regardless of where they live)? Amartya Sen, the recent Nobel laureate in economics, warns that arguing ...