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LIVE: World leaders take stock of global fight against racism

World leaders are meeting in the General Assembly to assess how far the world has come in combating racism and how far it still has to go. The Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, the most comprehensive framework of its kind, seeks to acknowledge historical injustices,…

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DR Congo Ebola emergency: Calls grow for urgent humanitarian access

Aid teams trying to keep deadly Ebola disease from spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are increasingly concerned about ongoing fighting and violence that has forced thousands of people to flee a displacement camp in the vast, resource-rich east of the…

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Flagship reports & datasets

  • United Nations·2024·Population & Migration
    World Population Prospects 2024

    The UN's flagship demographic projection, with population estimates for 237 countries up to 2100, including fertility and mortality assumptions.

  • WHO·2024·Health & Medicine
    World Health Statistics 2024

    Annual snapshot of global health: life expectancy, NCDs, maternal and child health and progress on the Sustainable Development Goal health targets.

  • World Bank·2025·Economy & Finance
    World Development Indicators 2025

    The most authoritative cross-country dataset on economic, social and environmental indicators — 1,400+ series for 217 economies.

  • IMF·2025·Economy & Finance
    World Economic Outlook, October 2025

    IMF projections for global growth, inflation, current accounts and fiscal balances for every member country.

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