Sentences with phrase «cent of women worldwide»

Endometriosis is a chronic, recurring disease that is experienced by approximately 10 per cent of women worldwide.

Not exact matches

The CGIAR estimates that 2.1 billion people worldwide are iron deficient, and 50 per cent of women are anaemic as a result.

Pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence affects 50 per cent of postmenopausal women worldwide.

For example, Oxfam notes that «women produce more than half of all the food grown worldwide, yet own only two per cent of all land and get only one per cent of lending to agriculture» — a rather glaring oversight in the World Bank's fact - findings if they really do mean business about poverty (and I bet they do).