The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day, according to US Census Bureau estimates released Monday. The 0.9% ...

Earlier this year, the UN’s most recent edition of the World Population Prospects report estimated that the global population will peak at around 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s and then drop to ...

The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights, estimates that the next 30 years will see the global population add an extra 2 billion people to today's figure of 7.7 billion, and, by the end of ...

Homelessness affects people all across the globe, irrespective of their country of residence, age, and gender.

An international team of researchers with a variety of backgrounds has worked together to calculate a global estimate of 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 ...

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Nepal's first nationwide survey of the threatened snow leopard estimated nearly 400 of the elusive big cats in the Himalayan ...

Major sources of data on marital status presented in World Marriage Data 2019 are censuses, sample surveys and national estimates based on population register data or estimation methods using ...

Foreign nationals will account for nearly 11 percent of Japan’s dwindling population of 87 million in 2070, according to an estimate by the labor ministry. The nation’s overall population will ...