Around 142 million women and girls went “missing” in the world due to son preference and sex-selective abortion between 1970 and 2020—India accounted for 40.3 million of these women.

Constituting 14% of India's populace, Muslims are the largest religious minority, with around 200 million individuals.

The combination of wage stagnation and increasing costs of living is making homeownership more difficult to achieve.

While challenges regarding contraception and family planning exist throughout West Africa, progress has been made as various actors have implemented best practices to address the barriers that hinder the safety of women.

While most of the desiccation of Great Salt Lake can be attributed to anthropomorphic causes, climate change has still had a measurable impact on the lake. Current estimates attribute about 9% of Great Salt Lake’s decline to climate change.

Throughout Nepal, brick kilns employ thousands of families annually for the seasonal work of crafting and shipping bricks. As families migrate between work in brick factories and agricultural work at home, more factors block their children from a complete and quality education.

Unemployment has been an issue affecting Native Americans living on reservations in the United States since the creation of reservations in the early nineteenth century.

Forty percent of teens reported that content on social media caused them to worry about their image.

The South Asia Region (SAR) is the second-largest producer of bricks globally, producing approximately 310 billion bricks annually accounting for 21% of global brick production and significantly contributing to the SAR’s GDP.

Suicide is a public health crisis that needs to be addressed for all age groups, particularly young adults because they are the most at risk.

While it is relatively safe for undocumented students to be more visible within higher education, many still choose to be invisible on campus, leaving them to navigate their education in silence due to the wariness of sharing their immigration status.

Medical misinformation is becoming an urgent issue for United States citizens—leading to increased deaths, a lack of trust in health professionals, and hate crimes and racism.

Ultra-processed foods currently make up over half of the calories in the American diet.

Government neglect due to corruption in government and the isolation of indigenous communities fuels indigenous educational inaccessibility.

There is little being done to understand and solve the problem of underfunding in rural areas of the US

Inadequate healthcare access for American Indians due to geographical barriers, historical trauma, and funding shortages results in higher rates of chronic diseases, financial burdens, and reduced quality of life.

Intergenerational social mobility, or the ability of children to surpass their parents' socio-economic status, is significantly limited when first-generation students drop out of college.

A combination of inaccessible maternal health care in rurality, distrust of medical facilities, and adolescent pregnancy are the main reasons for the persistence of obstetric fistulas in modernity.

Rates of mental health among physicians continue to climb at about 0.5% per year.

The disparity between the female population and female representation in government demonstrates the barriers that hinder gender equality in political leadership