With the number still ticking up, where are we now? The figure for the current world population depends on where you look – ...

The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day, ...

Combined with the birth and death rates, it means that the U.S. population will grow by one person every 21.2 seconds throughout the first month of the year. The world's population is also set to ...

As the theme of this year’s World Population Day reminds us, investing in data collection is important to understanding problems, tailoring solutions, and driving progress. So is finance.

Additionally, many Gen Beta members will likely live into the 22nd century. Babies born in 2025 will be 76 years old when the ...

"That's a pretty big thing; most of the world is transitioning into natural population decline," researcher Prof Christopher Murray told the BBC. "I think it's incredibly hard to think this ...

If the current course is not altered, we’ll reach 8 billion by 2020 and 9 to 15 billion (likely the former) by 2050. No population of a large vertebrate animal in the history of the planet has grown ...

Bulgaria's current population of about seven million is predicted to be nearer five million by 2050 Bulgaria is projected to have the fastest-shrinking population in the world. It's already lost a ...