More than half of the world’s countries and areas have fertility rates that fall below replacement fertility – the 2.1 live births per woman required, in theory, to keep a population stable.

India has overtaken China in the rank of the world's most populous nations, with over 1.46 billion people as of 2025In 2022, ...

I am a reporter on the breaking news team based in New York City. The U.S. Census Bureau projects the world population will be 8,019,876,189 on January 1—an almost 1% increase of 75,162,541 ...

The world’s population hit 8 billion on Tuesday, according to UN estimates, a major milestone as many parts of the world face plummeting growth rates and world leaders struggle to address ...

The latest update of the UN’s World Population Prospects confirms we are now in sight of a time when the human population will cease to grow and be in ongoing decline.

The global population may have been undercounted with billions not accounted for, a new study, published in the journal Nature Communications has claimed. As per the UN estimates, the current ...

Population likely to peak sooner and lower than expected with beneficial results – but environment is priority The long-feared “population bomb” may not go off, according to the authors of a ...

More than half of the world’s countries and areas have fertility rates that fall below replacement fertility – the 2.1 live births per woman required, in theory, to keep a population stable.