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 ...

A new report from United Nations shows the estimated global population will peak at 10.3 billion people in the mid-2080s - a significantly earlier timeline ... found that such growth is slowing ...

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.