Kanem is the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations sexual and reproductive health and rights agency On Nov. 15, the world’s population will hit 8 ...

It’s impossible to discuss global population without landing in the middle of a culture war, whether it was over supposed overpopulation in the 1970s or now, when the right, very much including ...

In Asia, Japan, another country with a significant aging population, is projected to experience a 16.3 percent decrease by 2050, losing over 20 million residents.

A chilling map from the Cold War era presents a stark outlook for the United States, should nuclear conflict ensue, with the ...

The map shows the location of the 307 rural areas analysed in the study. The reported populations in the graphic were found to be underestimated by between 53 and 84 percent. Global population ...

"For the first time, our study provides evidence that a significant proportion of the rural population may be missing from global population datasets," says postdoctoral researcher Josias Láng ...

The researchers found that from 2019 to 2022, an annual average of 30 million people — approximately one-third of a percent of the world’s population — migrated each year.