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.

World Population Day 2024 brings attention to the world's most populous countries, highlighting significant demographic shifts and projections for the future. The global population has seen ...

In a report released on World Population Day, the U.N. also said global population growth fell below 1 percent in 2020 for the first time since 1950. According to the latest U.N. projections ...