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Area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara Desert
Tetanus is now rare in high‑income countries but remains a preventable killer worldwide: global reported deaths fell to under ~35,000 by 2019 and confirmed global case counts have fallen by orders of ...
Reported averages for "Africans" vary depending on which studies and methods are used: some compilations based on and colleagues put the average for sub‑Saharan Africa near the high 60s (about 68.9), ...
Empirical evidence is mixed: historical and regional compilations have reported small average differences by population, but broad, clinician‑measured reviews and expert summaries conclude differences...
Global sources in the provided set do not give a single, agreed global “Caucasian” percentage or a decade-long time series for that group worldwide; available reporting focuses on broad regional popul...
The best available estimates place the global Muslim population at roughly today, representing about ; multiple demographic projects and compilations converge on this range for the early-to-mid 2020s....
Existing reporting and compilations show most countries do have laws restricting pornography access by age or outlawing child pornography; several sources note gaps or uneven implementation in a minor...
Global estimates for 2025 put the Muslim population at roughly 2.0–2.1 billion people, or about 24–26% of the world — up from roughly 1.6–1.7 billion in 2010 and 2.0 billion in 2020. Pew’s 2010–2020 a...
Since 2001, the single most devastating Islamist terrorist strike in global human terms remains the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States, which killed roughly and triggered long‑term geopoli...
Available reporting and studies through the provided sources show that vaccine hesitancy and lower COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the 2020s clustered by geography (notably parts of sub‑Saharan Africa), by...
Global data assembled in the provided analyses show that , with the Sahel, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), South Asia, and parts of Sub‑Saharan Africa bearing the brunt of Islamist extremist ...
studies show that largely belong to Middle Eastern Y-haplogroups and share substantial overlap with , indicating a common regional paternal pool rather than exclusive recent origins for either group ....
Global figures in recent reporting show large, but very different, tallies for Christians and Muslims when researchers count “persecution” by various measures: Open Doors’ World Watch List estimates a...
Most countries prohibit the production of sexually explicit material involving persons under 18, but international reporting and datasets show important gaps, variation in definitions (age of “child,”...
The dominant feature of forced migration in 2022–2024 is not a single set of “destination countries” but a patchwork of regional sinks: many victims remain exploited inside their own countries, while ...
The claim that "ns were in America before Indians or white people" bundles two different ideas: the deep human origin of all non‑Africans in Africa (a widely supported scientific consensus) and specif...
Cultural attitudes shape not only how people feel about but how likely they are to admit it on surveys: liberal, secular societies and heavy pop-culture exposure correlate with greater reported accept...
When an event, institution, neighborhood or photograph looks “only white,” the simplest explanations are demographic composition and selection bias; deeper causes include historical settlement pattern...
The peer‑reviewed literature directly testing cognitive function in or among Somali diaspora is sparse and heterogeneous: a contested large sample reported Raven‑style matrix scores for Somali refugee...
The R allele (the functional form encoding alpha‑actinin‑3, associated with fast‑twitch fibers and greater sprint/power capacity) is relatively more common in populations of sub‑Saharan African ancest...
Multiple recent meta-analyses and large empirical studies report measurable regional variation in penile dimensions, including girth, but the differences are generally modest, inconsistent across stud...