The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a new report by the United Nations said Thursday. The report ...

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 U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Monday. The 0.9% increase in ...

UN urbanization report ranks Bengaluru in the world’s top 10 densely populated cities; India features five megacities as ...

For many years, it was feared that a “population bomb” would explode and severely impact the planet. But a new study indicates it might not actually go off, because the human population will peak and ...

A report issued on the eve of the first major UN conference on water in over 45 years says 26% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe drinking water and 46% lacks access to basic ...

One of the world’s most successful family planning programs was nurtured in an unexpected place — Iran — and with the encouragement of the most unlikely leader, Ayatollah Khomeini. In the mid-80s Iran ...