The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights, estimates that the next 30 years will see the global population add an extra 2 billion people to today's figure of 7.7 billion, and, by the end of ...

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.

Governments, international bodies and researchers rely on global population data for resource allocation and infrastructure planning to disease epidemiology and disaster risk management. In a study ...

Welcome to the world of population projections. Estimates from highly respected demographers suggest that the United States of the future might be less populous than that of the past. Those ...

Researchers say that over half of population will be obese by 2050 and will have severe consequences unless immediate action ...

To many leading academics, the world’s population is suffering an existential crisis, yet the question remains over whether it’s one of too many people – or too few? You could be forgiven ...