Last week, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs released the World Population Prospects, the international body’s annual report on the current and future state of global population.

As 1968 began, Paul Ehrlich was an entomologist at Stanford University, known to his peers for his groundbreaking studies of the co-evolution of flowering plants and butterflies but almost unknown ...

Tokyo’s population was 14,065,000, the first time the figure in the capital topped 14 million and representing a surge of 549,000 residents over the 2015 census, the largest increase for any ...

Building more livable cities is an essential step toward achieving the World Bank mission of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. Today, more than half of the world’s ...

Our planet's actual population might be greater than we estimate currently, as per the study. The global population may have been undercounted with billions not accounted for, a new study ...

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 ...

Governments, international bodies and researchers rely on global population data for resource allocation and infrastructure planning to disease epidemiology and disaster risk management.

The world’s Middle Income Countries (MICs) are a diverse group by size, population, and income level. For the current 2024 fiscal year, low-income economies are defined as those with a GNI per capita, ...

As the world's population continues to grow, figuring out how to feed everyone remains at the forefront. One method that shows real promise is vertical farming. A recent scientific breakthrough in ...