Familienplanung
Schools

“Once you learn to read”

Zambia shows that schools are a good place to start fighting gender inequality

Schools

Indispensable lessons

Why teenage girls need sex education even more than teenage boys do

Minorities

Endangered languages

Indigenous languages have immense value

Minorities

On the verge of disappearing

An ancient language is at risk of dying in the Hindu Kush

Demographic change

Progress may not be sustained

Life expectancy has improved in Benin, but poverty remains a serious challenge

Global data

“We can end extreme poverty”

Tracking global poverty on a daily basis

Our view

Longer and better lives

Why nationalism and zero-sum thinking add up to a recipe for disaster

Demographic change

Lives are now 20 years longer

Birth rates go down as standards of living improve

Distorted perception

Middle-income majority

Hans Rosling showed that humankind is in a better shape than generally believed

Why things are better than people in rich countries think

Hans Rosling’s mission was to make the world aware of important trends

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Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.