How Bangladesh reduced the average number of children per woman to a mere 2.1

Steven Pinker shows that humankind has made dramatic progress and suggests what to do to achieve even more

Small, but ideologically relevant inaccuracies spoil otherwise good reporting

In Ghana, every person with a job must feed many members of an extended family

If teenage pregnancies are to be avoided, young people need sex education and access to contraceptives

GK, a non-governmental health-service provider in Bangladesh, knows how to reduce maternal mortality substantially

All people deserve to have a broad variety of family-planning options – including in rural Uganda

In Nigeria, many girls’ lives are ruined by early pregnancy

Nigeria’s incidence of teenage pregnancies is unacceptably high

Young women, in particular, are unable to use contraceptives and plan their families as they wish