It projects that eight countries will lead world population growth until 2050: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United ...

Since then, there has been a rapid increase in the world’s population so that in 2011 it passed 7 billion. The majority of this population growth is, again, in the developing world.

Human population growth over the past 10,000 years ... This area is bigger than 3 football pitches. According to the World Commission on Environment and Development there are only 1.7 hectares ...

A new report from United Nations shows the estimated global population will peak at 10.3 billion people in the mid-2080s - a significantly earlier timeline ... found that such growth is slowing ...