Global population growth remains uneven, with just ten countries accounting for a significant share of the world’s 2025 population, according to United Nations estimatesIndia, China, and the United ...

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

At the time of the first World Population Day – July 11, 1989 – about 5.25 billion people trod the Earth. Now, about 7.7 billion of us share the globe, and the number is expected to increase ...

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.

In this article, we list and discuss 30 of the Largest Cities in the World by Population. If you would like to skip our detailed discussion of the topic, you can go to 10 of the Largest Cities in ...

The animation below shows how the world’s population tripled from 2.5 billion people in 1950 to 8 billion in 2022. According to estimates by the United Nations Population Division, the world ...

World population projected to peak at 10.3 billion in 2080s, U.N. says Additionally, the global life expectancy is beginning to climb again post-COVID pandemic, and is now 73.3 years of age.

There are 57.5 million square miles of land on Earth, yet 95% of the planet’s human population inhabits only 10% of that land, according to the World Bank’s 2009 World Development Report. To ...

1.9 billion Combined projected population of the world's least developed countries by 2050. The population of these 48 countries, 34 of which are in Africa, will double in the next 34 years.

China’s population has fallen after decades of sky-high growth.This major shift in the world’s most populous country would be a big deal by itself, but China’s hardly alone in its declining ...

Meaning the world’s population isn’t just getting bigger, it’s getting older. Sign up for How To Read This Chart, a weekly data newsletter from Philip Bump.

The urban area of Tokyo, Japan, is the world's largest city with a population of 37.7 million, followed by Jakarta, Indonesia, and Delhi, India.