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 ...

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 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 ...