Average life expectancy estimations for different regions in different scenarios 

Mountaintop's Removal's Effect on Humans and the Economy

Clair MacDougal

Because of good governance in the past, and now oil production, Ghana is likely to reach all of the Millennium Development Goals toward ending extreme poverty and child mortality.

Bloomberg

The toilet is a magnificent thing. Invented at the turn of the 19th century, the flush version has vastly improved human life.

Ashwin Parulkar

These days, Indian policymakers are debating how to create a vast new food entitlement program. There is talk of poor households struggling to cope with high food prices and malnourishment among their children.

Millennium development goals: Two down, six to go

The United Nations has met two of its eight development goals, well ahead of the 2015 deadline. Six goals are left.

Victoria Ojeme

ABUJA—A new survey on malaria prevalence among Nigerian children has revealed that four out of every 10 have malaria.

AFP

LONDON — The world's population of seven billion is set to rise to at least 10 billion by 2100, but could top 15 billion if birth rates are just slightly higher than expected, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

Global Life Expectancy

Michael Kanellos

The world’s most important invention—the technological breakthrough that has fundamentally changed family life for the better nearly everywhere—isn’t particularly extravagant. In fact, you probably have one.

What is it? The car? The computer? The cell phone? Not quite.