According to Ripley’s, some 2,000 women reported pregnancies after touching its pair of ebony West African fertility figures. Acquired in 1993, the 5-foot totems did three world tours before ...

As part of the United States government's World Factbook, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) publishes up-to-date figures ... fertility rates will fall in the vast majority of sub-Saharan ...

29 percent of the world's babies were born in sub-Saharan Africa, but this figure is expected to rise to 54 percent of all babies globally by 2100. Benefits and challenges of falling fertility ...

Sub-Sahara Africa features prominently among that ... The decline has not been specific to Jamaica, as global fertility figures have also been falling. Worldwide, the rate is 2.5 children per ...

(Picture: Ella Byworth for Metro.co.uk) A significant decline has been noticed, with the study measuring fertility figures between ... while in Niger, Africa, women are having on average 7.1 ...