A new way of estimating rural populations has found that we may be undercounting people who live in these areas, potentially ...

Is our little blue marble of a planet actually a lot more crowded than we thought? A new study suggests we've been ...

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New research is suggesting that we might have more people on Earth than the current count of 8.2 billion, with hints that by 2080, there could be over 10 billion of us. According to some analysts ...

If knowing there are 8.2 BILLION people in the world makes you feel like an insignificant ant, this won’t help . . . A new ...

As Earth continues to warm, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. A 2024 UN report found that in the last three ...

This is nearly double the 1 in 125 people who were displaced a decade ago. The number of displaced people has increased every year for 12 years. Behind these stark and rising numbers lie countless ...

Our estimates of rural populations have systematically underestimated the actual number of people living in these regions by at least half, researchers have claimed – with potentially huge ...