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.

The population of the Earth is set to reach 8.09 billion come New Year’s Day, although the global birth rate is slowing according to experts. The huge number is an increase of more than 71 ...

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 ...