Nigeria is projected to become the world’s second-most populous country after India, with a population that will more than triple to over 700 million. Pakistan’s population is expected to ...

Over the past three decades, societies around the world have made remarkable progress in improving population data gathering, analysis, and use. New population figures, disaggregated by age ...

Progress in reducing global poverty has essentially halted: by 2030, nearly 7 percent of the world's population—nearly 600 million people—will still struggle ... Correcting course is both urgent and ...

This database presents a compilation of indicators on household size and membership composition around the world, estimated ... between countries and over time.

The country's shrinking population is a grim omen for the rest of the world China's population is ... the level needed to keep the population stable over time. At that moment a demographic timer ...

If trends continue, global rates of overweight and obese adults would rise to about 57.4% for men and 60.3% for women by 2050. In terms of raw numbers, China (627 million), India (450 million) and the ...

Today, more than half of the world’s population – 4.4 billion people ... services and economic opportunities in Niger, benefiting over 1 million people. The World Bank-financed project completed 99 ...

Majority of the World's Population Breathes Dirty Air ... Breathing in polluted air over a long period of time can cause respiratory illness, Alzheimer’s disease and cancer, said Fatimah ...