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.

One in every 69 people, or 1.5 per cent of the entire world’s population, is now forcibly displaced. This is nearly double the 1 in 125 people who were displaced a decade ago. The number of displaced ...

Today, more than half of the world’s population – 4.4 billion people – lives in cities. This shift is set to continue, with the urban population expected to more than double by 2050, at which point ...

Broadcaster Chris Packham, who investigated the impact of a growing human population on the world in his 2020 TV documentary 7.7 Billion People and Counting, is one of them. “With an escalation ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

The World Marriage Data 2019 provides a comparable and up-to-date set of data on the marital status of the population by age and sex for 232 countries or areas of the world. The database contains ...

Switzerland is the best country in the world for 2024. 89 Countries #1 in Best Countries Overall Switzerland, officially called the Swiss Confederation, is a small country in Central Europe made ...