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

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

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.

The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day, according to US Census Bureau estimates released Monday. The 0.9% ...

The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights, estimates that the next 30 years will see the global population add an extra 2 billion people to today's figure of 7.7 billion, and, by the end of ...

Most estimates place Earth’s human population at around 8.2 billion, but Josias Láng-Ritter—a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University in Finland and lead author of the study published in the ...

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

The grid idea is simple: Split the world into squares, and estimate the population ... The significant disparity between the population estimates and the actual number of people moved in an area is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Population projections also included UN projections for net migration rates. We do not claim that the scenarios presented here necessarily represent the best predictions of future global and ...