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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The second, larger wave began 10,000 years ago as the discovery of agriculture caused a population boom ... momentum of human population growth, together with the imperative for further economic ...

The chart shows the change ... more than the 2.6-fold growth in population. That means production has grown faster than the population, and the world produces more cereal per person than 60 ...

The MENA region commands abundant human and natural resources, accounts for a large share of world petroleum ... the region's population. About half the population lives in cities. Most MENA countries ...

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.

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 ...