Infant mortality rate (IMR) has often been used as an indicator of human development. Thus, a basic understanding of the world would include a study of infant mortality rates. This paper shows world trends in infant mortality rates over the last 50 years. The major trend in IMR over the past...

This report shows global and regional population trends. World population continues to grow, although overall growth has slowed. However, the pattern varies by development status and by region. For more developed countries, population has been growing at a slower rate at least since the 1950s....