With the number still ticking up, where are we now? The figure for the current world population depends on where you look – not to mention that it’ll most certainly have changed between the ...

As per the UN estimates, the current world population is around 8.2 billion and is projected to peak at over 10 billion by mid-2080. However, the researchers at Aalto University in Finland found ...

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 ...

As per a recent estimate by the United Nations, the Earth’s current world population stands at 8.1 billion. The density of the population is distributed across the planet, varying from place to ...

Now standing at 5.7 billion and growing at a rate of 1.6 percent per year, the population of the world will double in ... in the face of the current mass extinction. But thousands of others ...

If the current course is not altered, we’ll reach 8 billion by 2020 and 9 to 15 billion (likely the former ... history. . . . We live on a human-dominated planet and the momentum of human population ...