With billions confined to their homes worldwide, which living arrangements are most common?
Looking at household living arrangements in 130 countries and territories may shed light on how coronavirus-related quarantines are being felt.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Looking at household living arrangements in 130 countries and territories may shed light on how coronavirus-related quarantines are being felt.
The 69 immigrants and children of immigrants in the 116th Congress claim heritage in 38 countries and are overwhelmingly Democrats.
At least 65 of the current voting members of Congress are immigrants or the children of immigrants. These members represent nearly half of U.S. states.
This Congress has passed more substantive bills so far in its session than any since 2007 – though nearly a third of them were to undo Obama-era rules.
Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. Here are some questions and answers about their public opinions and demographics.
A little over a third of the refugees admitted into the U.S. in fiscal 2016 were religious minorities in their home countries. Of those, 61% were Christians and 22% were Muslims.
While many, especially in the U.S., may associate Islam with the Middle East or North Africa, nearly two-thirds of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region.
Although Europe is struggling to manage the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere, the countries facing the biggest refugee impacts are the ones closest to the fighting.
Legislative productivity may be on an upswing, as lawmakers enacted more bills before their August break than either of the two preceding Congresses.
Iraq and Iran are two of only a handful of countries that have more Shias than Sunnis.
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