Russia is staring down the barrel of a demographic disaster, with fears of a "population wipe out" as fresh figures point to ...

The world's population is expected to swell to 9.7 billion by 2064, before dropping to 8.8 billion in 2100, according to a new study. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of ...

"Continued global population growth through the century is no longer the most likely trajectory for the world's population," says IHME Director Dr. Christopher Murray, who led the research.

Crowds of people on a beach in Brighton, England. Globally, fertility rates are decreasing at significant rates, leading to a prediction of peak global population in a little over 4 decades. The ...

Their estimates of world population by 1990, published in 1950, were off by about 12 percent. They quickly got better: By 1960, those estimates were off by only about 2 percent.

For decades, we’ve been told that the world’s biggest problem is too many people. From Malthus in the 18th century to “The ...

The global population is growing, but do you know which city is biggest? These are the most populated cities in the world.

A new study concludes that strict fertility measures, such as a one-child policy, or even a mass catastrophe like a global plague or a third world war, ...

The global human population is “locked in” to an inexorable rise this century and will not be easily shifted, even by apocalyptic events such as a third world war or lethal pandemic, a study ...

“Continued global population growth through the century is no longer the most likely trajectory for the world’s population,” said Dr. Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health ...

Dozens of poor nations have yet to regain their pre-pandemic levels of overall well-being, amid signs that the pandemic may have permanently depressed the world’s development trajectory ...