Globally, women are younger than their male partners, more likely to age alone
Globally, women are younger than their male partners. They also are more likely to age alone and to live in single-parent households.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Globally, women are younger than their male partners. They also are more likely to age alone and to live in single-parent households.
On issues including national identity and religious minorities, views among UK adults align very closely to general opinion across the EU.
In the EU, Central and Eastern Europeans differ from Western Europeans in their views on certain issues, including religious minorities and gay marriage.
In the coming decades, the Muslim share of Europe’s population is expected to grow – and could more than double. Read five facts about the Muslim population in Europe.
Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. Here are some questions and answers about their public opinions and demographics.
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.
Muslim women have made greater educational gains than Muslim men in most regions of the world.
Americans place less importance on religion in their lives than do people in a number of countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia — but more than residents of many other Western and European countries.
Hundreds of thousands of mostly young refugees are fleeing into Europe, where most countries have rapidly aging (and sometimes shrinking) populations.
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