Electric cars are taking off quickly in Latin America

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Electric car sales are now significant and growing in Latin America, with Colombia reaching 10% of new car sales and Mexico jumping from 2% to 7% in a year, largely due to tax incentives.
U.S.-based companies dominate the most-used AI models, but China's presence in the top 50 has grown rapidly from 5 to 20 models between early 2025 and May 2026, while few other countries are represented.
Obesity rates have surged in low- and middle-income countries; in Pakistan, overweight adults have more than doubled and obese adults more than tripled in 20 years, raising risks of diseases like diabetes and cancer.
Europe's per capita milk supply is over 2.5 times the global average, far exceeding levels in Africa and Asia, based on data including dairy products like yogurt and cheese but not butter.
In some African countries like Chad, the lifetime risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes for a 15-year-old girl is about 4%, driven by high maternal mortality and fertility rates, though both are declining.
Tobacco use in India has roughly halved over two decades for both men and women, which is expected to reduce future smoking-related deaths, currently around one million annually.
The price of lighting has fallen 16,000-fold since the 14th century, with 1 million lumen-hours dropping from £34,000 to £2.15 (adjusted for inflation), due to innovations in lighting technology.

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