Sub-Saharan Africa's population is growing three times faster than the rest of the world with an average of 4.6 births per woman in 2021. By comparison, the fertility rate in Canada was 1.3 births per ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director of Communication Department, Julie Kozack, made this known at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC during a news conference. She was speaking on the ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the world’s most diverse regions, with over one billion people living in forty-nine countries. In Cameroon alone, a mix of Muslims, Christians, and adherents of local ...

By Ini Ekott Sub-Saharan Africa is on track to record its fastest-ever annual expansion in access to clean cooking in 2026, ...

CFR Education aims to build global affairs literacy by providing free, nonpartisan resources and programming to help high school and higher education students gain the knowledge, skills, and ...

The black population of South Africa experienced a decline in fertility before any country of sub-Saharan Africa (Caldwell and Caldwell, 1993). This fact has been poorly documented for two reasons.

Sub-Saharan Africa has replaced Europe as the locus for the world's Christians, due to both higher birthrates and Western Europe's "widespread Christian disaffiliation" -- with Christians declining as ...

Rapid urbanization and population growth in sub-Saharan Africa has increased the incidence of asthma in young people, but the lack of diagnosis and care means that many young people are suffering from ...