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Commentary

While women slowly gain ground in politics, what progress can be reported for the great majority of women in the developing world?

These pages present some of the main findings of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) programme - the most important recent source of information about the lives of women in the developing world.

With 47 nations surveyed so far, the DHS programme has conducted in-depth interviews with over 360,000 women over the last decade (click here to see the date of each country survey).