As the global population grows, it will not do so equally everywhere. This map explores population growth—and decline.

They are described by characteristics that include: If population growth is just one of many population characteristics, what makes studying it so important? First, studying how and why ...

A new report on population growth and sustainable development from the Population Division of UN DESA revisits the complex relationships linking population increase to social and economic ...

All populations begin exponential growth in favorable environments and at low population densities. Because of this, exponential growth may apply to populations establishing new environments ...

This is how we accelerate progress for all. It took hundreds of thousands of years for the world population to grow to 1 billion – then in just another 200 years or so, it grew sevenfold.