The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Monday.

Currently, the UN estimates the world population to be about 8.2 billion, which is projected to peak at over 10 billion by the mid-2080. However, research, published in the journal Nature ...

the population declined, or remained relatively static. This was due to the potato famine, which killed approximately one million people, and because of high levels of emigration to the New World ...

About 250 million years ago, the world consisted of a single ... people died—one of the deadliest famines in history, in the percentage of population lost. A similar famine in the United States ...

Population per se is not at the root of the world’s problems ... people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” he promised in a 1969 ...

March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility, observed around the world to bring attention to a population that is ...

The world’s population is becoming older but some countries ... the largest generational cohort in history. GenZ is the newest generation and includes people born between 1995 and 2015 ...

In an astonishing turn of events, New Caledonia, a small island nation with a population of just 5.25 million, has achieved a monumental feat by qualifying for the World Cup for the first time in ...