In 1994, widespread concern over population growth brought world leaders together at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. Today, however, ...

On July 11, the United Nations will mark its annual World Population Day, which aims to raise awareness of global population trends and related issues. Here are five facts about how the world’s ...

The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major shift from a decade ago, a new report by the United ...

Fertility rates around the world are dropping quicker than expected, putting the world on track to see a population decline before the end of the century, according to a report from the United Nations ...

Though the global population is quickly inching toward 8 billion people, as of June 2022, global estimates projected there were just over 7.9 billion people around the world. The question came up by ...

Muslims are the world’s second-largest religious group and the fastest-growing major religion. They make up the vast majority of the population in the Middle East-North Africa region. In all other ...