Jon Previtali of VDE Americas explains the hard science behind managing hail risk, one of the costliest sources of damage to ...

* Over 8 billion people live on Earth today, with the next billion coming fast * Fertility rates are declining in 60+ countries, while Africa drives future growth * Urbanization, //aging, and climate ...

What if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the ...

New research published in Science reveals what experts are calling a "quiet crisis" in population data collection.

Hundreds of decisions—how to build roads, where to send medicine, how to plan for natural disasters—depend on knowing where people live. Over the past few decades, population maps have become powerful ...

Drip-fed aid, a starving population and the most air strikes since October 7: Gaza’s growing crisis in numbers Israel’s Operation Gideon’s Chariots has seen an escalation in attacks in Gaza.

And this, in turn, affects the decisions that are made based on that data. Rural Population: Forgotten and Underestimated Current estimates place 43% of the world’s 8.2 billion people in rural ...

World rural population may have been undercounted anywhere between 53 per cent to 84 per cent over the study period between 1975 and 2010. Edited by: Abhinav Singh World News Mar 21, 2025 07:40 am IST ...

However, these figures may be misleading if rural populations have been significantly undercounted. Global decision-makers, including the UN and the World Bank, rely on the same flawed census data ...

Credit: Midjourney AI. The latest United Nations figures claim the world’s population is 8.2 billion, projected to peak at 10.3 billion by the mid-2080s.

The study focused on population maps for the period 1975-2010, due to a lack of dam data from later years. Findings showed 2010 datasets had the least bias, missing between one-third (32%) to ...

The study focused on population maps for the period 1975–2010, due to a lack of dam data from later years. Findings showed 2010 datasets had the least bias, missing between one-third (32%) to ...