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 ...

Demography is about more than just people. It’s about the foundation of society, culture, and economy – and it’s deeply ...

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

Farrell: OK, so they wagered on the decadelong price of five metals: copper, chrome, nickel, tin and tungsten. Ehrlich would ...

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 ...

Of the approximately 280 million immigrants in the world, the country hosting the largest number is America, the land of ...

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 ...