A study published in the journal Nature Communications reveals that the global population, particularly in rural areas, may ...

There could be billions more people living on Earth than currently thought, according to a new study which claims rural ...

A new way of estimating rural populations has found that we may be undercounting people who live in these areas, potentially ...

Because of low birth rates, the world’s population is on the way to declining for the first time in human history.

For centuries, census and household surveys have been the backbone of population knowledge. But we’ve just returned from the ...

The projected global population in 2015 was 7.1 billion compared to the UN medium variant projection of 7.2 billion, reflecting somewhat higher adult death rates in our mortality projections.

While global population projections forecast a peak of over 10 billion by 2080, some experts believe we might be closer to that milestone than previously thought. The theory comes from a new ...

With current estimates placing 43% of the world's 8.2 billion people in rural areas, the new findings have far-reaching consequences. Official population estimates published by the UN and the ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty ... nearly 7 percent of the world's population—nearly 600 million people—will still ...