Where People Meet Place Discover the fascinating world of population geography! From the densest cities to the emptiest regions, we explore how people shape the planet — and how the planet shapes ...

Christians remain the largest religious group. But they’re shrinking as a share of the global population, as many Christians ...

Every part of that appears to be wrong. In reality, Thailand’s reported birth rate last year was 0.98, and preliminary 2025 ...

The global human population has been climbing for the past two centuries. But what is normal for all of us alive today — growing up while the world is growing rapidly — may be a blip in human ...

Now it says the population bomb may never go off: it reckons sub-Saharan Africa’s population may peak as soon as 2060, which is 40 years earlier than the UN’s projections. Even so, fertility ...

The United States population accounts for just over 4% of the world population, and geographically, the U.S. covers 1.96% of the Earth’s surface or 6.1% of its landmass. China similarly covers ...

In fiscal 2024, the World Bank approved $15.6 billion for 96 operations in the region, ... million people by expanding access to grid and off-grid electricity in a region where only 48 percent of the ...

In the decades after World War II, East Asia’s population boomed. Between 1950 and 1980, it increased by almost 80 percent. By 2020, the region had almost 2.5 times as many inhabitants as in 1950, ...

The most densely populated region in the world in Macau, an administrative region near the south coast of China. It is home to 710,000 people in an area of just over 30 square kilometers.

The urban area of Tokyo, Japan, is the world's largest city with a population of 37.7 million, followed by Jakarta, Indonesia, and Delhi, India.

The world population reached 8 billion in 2022, representing a surge of over 300%, from an estimated 2.5 billion people in 1950. It is expected to increase by about 2 billion over the coming 30 years.