Several studies identified that women with a history of intimate partner violence are 16% more likely to have a low-birth-weight baby and twice as likely to report having had an induced abortion - nearly half of which globally take place in unsafe conditions.
Today more than half of women globally have access to a bank account (Global Findex 2014) through NGOs and MFIs but also through commercial banks, mobile network operators and insurance companies.
If half of the globally discovered SNPs were polymorphic in Thailand, so that ∼25,000 SNPs were typed with such an array, the SNP marker density would average ∼1 per kb, at which distance pairwise LD indices in the Thai P. falciparum population are often moderately strong (D'>0.5) [33], [36], [36].
Sub-Saharan Africa, with one of the lowest contraceptive prevalence and highest fertility rates globally, contributes half of the global maternal deaths.
The US provides roughly half of food aid globally at an estimated annual cost of $2bn.
In the first half of this year, governments globally made 1,791 requests to Google to remove material, compared with 949 in the same time in 2011, according to company data.
In Germany, Merkel's two favourite statistics are, first, that half of welfare spending globally is in Europe, despite having less than 10percentt of the world's population.
Despite the fact that sexual transmission is the number one way HIV is spread, despite the fact that women account for half of all people globally living with HIV, some countries would rather pursue a moralistic agenda around sex and women than put an end to AIDS.
However, measuring a denominator of <2000 g is challenging given that nearly half of all newborns globally are not weighed at birth.
One of the most important biological interactions that shapes biodiversity is parasitism, with up to half of known species globally being parasites or parasitoids (Windsor 1998; Poulin and Morand 2004).
