The world's population is growing but in some countries birth rates are plummeting - so do we have too many people or too few ...

As Alan Weisman wrote, in The World Without Us, “The intelligent solution [to the problem of population growth] would require the courage and the wisdom to put our knowledge to the test.

New research in 2023 revealed that the world's population might not stay as high as it has been and that it will soon drop dramatically. But would a major decline in the global population be a ...

Overpopulation afflicts most countries but remains primarily a local problem -- an ... Paul Demeny, of The Population Council, is exceptionally clear on this, and the World Bank economist Lant ...

The 0.9% increase in 2024 was a slight slowdown from last year, when the world population grew by 75 million people. In January 2025, 4.2 births and 2.0 deaths were expected worldwide every second ...

As the theme of this year’s World Population Day reminds us, investing in data collection is important to understanding problems, tailoring solutions, and driving progress. So is finance.

Another significant element of India's population challenge is gender inequality, with Muttreja referring to this as "the ...

To understand the problem, let’s go back to 1990, when Alabama saw more than 63,000 babies born, and recorded more than ...

And yet, not a word about the cause, common to all of these problems. The plague upon us is ourselves. Too many people struggling to deal with each other. As the world population continues to ...

By mid-century, 28 percent of Chinese citizens are expected to be 65 and older, according to the World Health Organization. China's growing retiree population is sure to strain its economy ...

Russia's economy has a dire demographic problem on its hands ... The nation's overall population growth has shrunk over the ...