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Nearly 1 in every 100 deliveries is a twin birth. Triplet, quadruplet and higher order deliveries occur much more seldom — only once in 10,000 deliveries. Is the incidence of twin births the same everywhere in the world? Do twins ...

Every other year, the summer issue of Population & Sociétés présents a global picture on the world population data.

According to WHO, about half a million women die each year due to pregnancy or childbirth. Over half of these women are African (53% in 1995), while the rest are Asian (42%). Less than 1% of maternal deaths occur in ...

On 1st January 2002, the population of metropolitan France was estimated to be 59.3 million to which must be added another 1.8 million living in the French overseas departments, bringing the total to 61.1 million [1]. The population in metropolitan ...

With close to one adult in ten infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), compared with one in a hundred worldwide, sub-Saharan Africa is by far the region most affected by AIDS. What are the demographic consequences, especially concerning mortality ...

Every other year, the summer issue of Population and Societies presents a global picture of the world population. The data shown here can be found in the World Population Data Sheet published by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) [1]. Each ...

Length of life is continuing to increase in France. It made a leap forward in 2004 compared with 2003, the year of the heatwave, but also compared with 2002, a normal year. By setting the advances of the past few ...

Every other year, the summer issue of Population and Societies called The population of the world presents global picture of the world population. The data shown here can be found in the WorldPopulation Data Sheet published by the Population Reference ...