overtaking China as the world's most populous country, by around 2027. India, along with eight other countries, will make up over half of the estimated population growth between now and 2050.

On 23 February, the new report will be launched at the Future of the World Global Policy Dialogues: The Future of Population Growth kicking off at 8:30 a.m. EST. This event will be discussing the ...

It projects that eight countries will lead world population growth until 2050: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United ...

Today, questions about the limits to human population growth remain unanswered. Will the same factors that have already begun to limit growth in the world's more developed countries — declining ...

Since then, there has been a rapid increase in the world’s population so that in 2011 it passed 7 billion. The majority of this population growth is, again, in the developing world.

The world's population has more than doubled over the last 60 years, but global food production has managed to keep up, Our ...

The rates, scales, kinds, and combinations of changes occurring now are fundamentally different from those at any other time in history. . . . We live on a human-dominated planet and the momentum of ...

Human population growth over the past 10,000 years ... This area is bigger than 3 football pitches. According to the World Commission on Environment and Development there are only 1.7 hectares ...

The MENA region commands abundant human and natural resources, accounts for a large share of world petroleum production and ... account for about 70 percent of the region's population. About half the ...

Middle income countries are home to 75% of the world’s population and 62% of the world’s poor. At the same time, MICs represent about one third of global GDP and are major engines of global growth.

The main indicator used to measure Shared Prosperity (one of the Twin Goals of the World ... GDP growth, since it takes into account how much the poorest people are benefiting from economic growth.