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Europe continues to trail behind other international regions in terms of the proportion of venture capital and other private investment directed toward women. Female startup entrepreneurs are rare in Europe. The rate of entrepreneurial activity among European women is low, at 5.7%, compared to a global average of 11%. [58]
The selling of economically and socially vulnerable young women has become one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises in the global economy. Young women must often leave their homes to find work in the cities because of poor economic conditions. Enterprising girls that travel alone make easy targets for traffickers.
The largest import and export merchandise trade partners for most countries of the world are listed below. Details for the European Union, Hong Kong and Macau are also included. In most cases the data relates to 2021 rankings. Data was extracted from the World Trade Organization's Trade Profile Database. [1] [2]
European countries by fossil fuel use (% of total energy) European countries by health expense per person; European countries by military expenditure as a percentage of government expenditure; European countries by percent of population aged 0-14; European countries by percentage of urban population; List of sovereign states in Europe by life ...
Women working in a milk production plant in Ukraine, 1976. Beyond income equality, the transition increased the gender discrimination in workplaces. [28] [29] Many women left professional and managerial positions that women had occupied previously due to the ongoing removal of state childcare services in central and eastern European countries.
According to the Association of Americans Resident Overseas, an estimated 5.4 million Americans live abroad. While the numbers are a bit skewed as the U.S. government and other authoritative ...
There are a number of studies confirming that spatial development in countries with higher levels of economic development differs from countries with lower levels of development. [4] The correlation between geography and a nation's wealth can be observed by examining a country's GDP (gross national product) per capita, which takes into account ...
Of the 271 million international migrants today, 130 million – or nearly half – are women. The share of women migrants increased from 46.7% in 1960 to 48.4% in 2010, [17] but has declined slightly over the past two decades, from 49.1% in 2000 to 47.9% in 2019. [18]