Women of the World : A Chartbook for Developing Regions / Ellen Jamison.

The fifth in a series of five handbooks designed to present and analyze statistical data on women, this report presents a series of captioned charts describing the situation of women in Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East and North Africa, and Asia and the Pacific. The original sources of data are the censuses and surveys conducted by national statistical offices of the countries themselves. The chartbook begins with a view of the current total population in each country and the changing proportion of women in urban areas. Next, sex ratios of the population in two key age groups--working (ages 15 to 64 years) and elderly (65 and over)--are presented for rural and urban populations. Male and female education is represented by literacy rates and school enrollment; labor force participation rates and share of labor force are given for men, and labor force participation rates are shown for women in the key age group 20 to 29 years, by rural/urban residence. The percentage of young women in rural and urban areas who are single and the proportion of older men and women who are widowed are illustrated next, followed by the proportion of households headed by women. Fertility rates and gender differences in infant mortality and in life expectancy at birth are also illustrated. The chartbook is organized by topic. Within each topic, charts are presented by region; and within each chart, data are shown by country. (LH)

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