Latin America has some of the highest obesity rates in the world. Mexico overtook the US in 2013 as the world's most obese country and is expected to continue to see a steady rise in its obese ...

Latin America and the Caribbean rank among the regions with the highest rates of criminal activity worldwide, marked by a ...

Every part of that appears to be wrong. In reality, Thailand’s reported birth rate last year was 0.98, and preliminary 2025 ...

Obesity rates for Black children and adolescents are 22.4% in the decade before the pandemic and 35% in the 2 years after the ...

Note: Real effective exchange rates are assumed to remain constant at the levels prevailing during April 26–May 24, 2019. Economies are listed on the basis of economic size. The aggregated quarterly ...

Also, they were willing to forgo 5 percent of their consumption, on average, in return for an inflation rate they deemed acceptable. Macroeconomic theorists often contemplate “impossible worlds,” and ...

Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...

Discover how Latin America is leading a care revolution by recognising and valuing the care work that women and girls shoulder.

Latin America and Caribbean At-A-Glance Latin America and the Caribbean has proved relatively resilient in the face of rising debt stress, inflation, and uncertainty arising from the Russian war in ...