This paper gives an overview on current demographic trends and projected population change in Europe and neighboring … regions. The main focus of the analysis is on Western and Central Europe. Today this world region has a total population of … 500 million. Available forecasts until the year 2050 project a decline of the population at working age, a subsequent …

Rapid population ageing has led to repeated adjustments to the parameters of Japan's public pension scheme over the …

While on-track for child health and maternal health MDGs, Lao PDR continues to have some of the worst maternal and … child health (MCH) outcomes, both globally and in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. Under-five and infant mortality … rates are high relative to GDP per capita, and utilization of essential health services is low, given significant demand …

Lao PDR has made notable progress in improving maternal health, with materanal mortality decreasing from 1,600 per 100 …,000 births in 1990 to 220 in 2013.1 However, in order for further gains to be realized, at least two barriers need to be … addressed - the low utilization of maternal health (MH) services and weak financial protection, especially among the lower …