At the same time, death rates are holding fairly steady ... and selective abortion of female fetuses have resulted in male/female ratios of over 108/100 at very young ages. Declining birth rates, ...

Governments, international bodies and researchers rely on global population data for resource allocation and infrastructure ...

"For the first time, our study provides evidence that a significant proportion of the rural population may be missing from ...

World rural population may have been undercounted anywhere between 53 per cent to 84 per cent over the study period between ...

Currently, the UN estimates the world population to be about 8.2 billion, which is projected to peak at over 10 billion ... most widely used global population datasets that map the planet into ...