To photograph our cover story on the population milestone reached last year, Justin Jin and Yagazie Emezi captured individual stories in lands they each know well. By Emily Martin March 21, 2023 ...

China is the world’s most populous country, having an estimated population of 1.41 billion people in the year 2021, according to the United States Census Bureau’s U.S. and World Population Clock.

The growth rate for the U.S. in the past year was 0.53%, about half the worldwide rate. The U.S. added 1.7 million people and will have a population on New Year's Day of 335.8 million people.

This piece originally appeared on newstatesman.com.How many people do we need? How many do we want? The astonishing announcement last year that the population of England and Wales increased by ...

Including Brazil’s 215 million people puts the world’s seven most populous countries at 51.7% of the global population. In the UN’s “medium” scenario for future population growth – its ...

Next, we turned to the United Nations World Population Dashboard, where the international agency also reported that the total population in millions was 7,954,000,000 — or 7.9 billion and some ...

New York City's lost 5.3% of its population in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, ... Over 468,200 people fled the city between April 2020 and July 2022.

The report estimated roughly 1.3 billion people will be added to Africa's population between 2017 and 2050—compared to 750 million people in Asia during that same time frame.