Gillis and Dugger, "U.N. Forecasts 10.1 Billion People by Century's End."
189 to more than 730 million people by 2100
Ibid.
190 would put Nigeria's population at the level of China in the mid-1960s
"Total Population, CBR, CDR, NIR and TFR of China (19492000)," China Daily, August 20, 2010.
191 significant declines in child and infant mortality
Potts and Campbell, "The Myth of 9 Billion"; Robert Kunzig, "Population 7 Billion," National Geographic, January 2011.
192 beginning of the nineteenth century-from thirty-five to seventy-seven years
Kunzig, "Population 7 Billion."
193 compared to 8 percent in 1970-of college students in Saudi Arabia were women
UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Global Education Digest 2009: Comparing Education Statistics Across the World, 2009, http://www.uis.unesco.org/template/pdf/ged/2009/GED_2009_EN.pdf, p. 227.
194 Arab states is now 48 percent; in Iran 51 percent
UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Global Education Digest 2011, 2011, http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Pages/ged-2011.aspx.
195 67 of the 120 nations for which statistics are available
Gary S. Becker, William H. J. Hubbard, and Kevin M. Murphy, "The Market for College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women," American Economic Review 100, no. 2 (2010): 22933.
196 The world average is 51 percent
Ibid.; World Bank, The Road Not Traveled: Education Reform in the Middle East and North Africa, MENA Development Report, 2008, http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTMENA/Resources/EDU_Flagship_Full_ENG.pdf, p. 171.
197 61 percent of master degrees, and 51 percent of doctoral degrees
U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Fast Facts," 2010, http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=72.
198 has announced plans to allow women to vote beginning in 2015
"Saudi Women to Receive Right to Vote-in 2015," NPR, September 26, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/09/26/140818249/saudi-women-get-the-vote.
199 only 18 percent of the gap in political participation
Ricardo Hausmann, Laura D. Tyson, and Saadia Zahidi, "The Global Gender Gap Index 2010," Global Gender Gap Report 2010, 2010, http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2010.pdf.
200 two women have entered the workplace for every man
"A Guide to Womenomics," Economist, April 12, 2006.
201 with 83 women in the workforce for every 100 men
Ibid.
202 filling between 60 and 80 percent of the jobs
Ibid.
203 "has contributed much more to global growth than China has"
Ibid.
204 responsible for producing slightly less than 40 percent of GDP
Ibid.