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 ...

Member states must cooperate to tackle climate change and not take actions that set back environmental protections, the Inter ...

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

Latin America's top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations ...

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

Sugary soft drinks, candy and highly processed foods are no longer welcome in Mexico’s elementary, middle and high schools. It’s part of an effort to battle one of the world’s worst obesity and ...

The global prevalence of OA attributed to high BMI has steadily increased over the past 3 decades, particularly among women and in high-SDI regions.

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 ...

Full Report and Executive Summary Global growth is forecast at 3.0 percent for 2019, its lowest level since 2008–09 and a 0.3 percentage point downgrade from the April 2019 World Economic Outlook.

World Development Report 2022: FINANCE for an Equitable RecoveryThe COVID-19 pandemic triggered the largest global economic crisis seen in more than a century, with especially severe impacts for ...

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