Two-thirds of humanity now live in countries where fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels, posing a threat to ...

That was up from 2,300 in 1950. Old folks rule — at the ballot box The world is now home to an estimated 722,000 centenarians, according to the United Nations’ population projections for 2024. By 2054 ...

While some might expect that to be Egypt or Greece, the country in question is a tiny landlocked republic with a population ...

The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day Credit: AP Credit: AP The world population increased by more than 71 ...

This is because two-thirds of the world's population live in countries with fertility rates below the "replacement rate." In developed countries, an average of 2.1 live births per woman is ...

Could future maps give us a glimpse of what the world's population will look like in 2100? Experts are drawing up maps which ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

Welcome to the world of population projections. Estimates from highly respected demographers suggest that the United States of the future might be less populous than that of the past. Those ...

pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous nation, which is now facing both an aging population and an emerging shortage of working age people. China’s ...

Beijing, Jan 17 (EFE).- The population of China, the world’s second-most populous country, fell by about 1.39 million last year, according to official data published Friday by the nation’s ...