The data can be configured onto a chart tracking world population over 200 years, rising from less than two billion in 1900, cresting across peak humanity in the 2080s and then subsiding gently ...

Over half of the world's population now lives in cities, a figure expected to rise to nearly 70% by 2050, posing significant challenges for jobs, housing, and infrastructure. The World Bank is ...

Without significant changes, the researchers predict that 3.8 billion adults will be overweight or obese in 15 years- or roughly 60% of the worldwide adult population in 2050. The world's health ...

Without a serious change, the researchers estimate that 3.8 billion adults will be overweight or obese in 15 years -- -- or around 60 percent of the global adult population in 2050. The world's ...

Without a serious change, the researchers estimate that 3.8bn adults will be overweight or obese in 15 years — or around 60pc of the global adult population in 2050. The world’s health systems ...

The global burden of Parkinson’s disease is expected to more than double in the coming decades as people live longer and some countries experience a population ... of the world by 2050.

Nearly 60 percent of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless governments take action, a large new study said yesterday. The research ...

More than half of adults globally and a third of children and adolescents will be overweight or experiencing obesity by 2050.

However, by 2050, this number globally could rise to nearly 3.8 billion -- 1.8 billion men and 1.9 billion women -- "over half of the likely global adult population ... it the world's second ...