Curated category
Demography
- MarriageThe word marriage appeared around 1300, borrowed from Old French and ultimately tracing to the Latin term for married. Anthropologists have proposed several…
- The World Economy: Historical StatisticsAngus Maddison published The World Economy: Historical Statistics in 2004 through the OECD Development Centre. This work examined population and economic…
- Life expectancyHuman life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age. The most commonly used metric is life…
- Human migrationIn 2015, migrants made up 3.3% of the world population yet contributed 9.4% to global GDP. This economic weight belies a complex legal landscape where three…