Below, a quick roundup of a few of the things I learned over the past few months. There could be billions more people living on Earth than currently thought, according to a new study which claims rural figures worldwide could be vastly underestimated. (The Independent) Women tend to outlive men around the world. In 2021, this difference amounted to a 5-year gap in global life expectancy: the average life expectancy was 73.8 years for women versus 68.4 years for men. (Our World In Data) Resear...