Spears: Depopulation is now the most likely future. In a few decades, the world's population will stop growing and begin to ...

The animation below shows how the world’s population tripled from 2.5 billion people in 1950 to 8 billion in 2022. According to estimates by the United Nations Population Division, ...

UNITED NATIONS — 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 ...

South Korea's population might plummet to 15% of its current level over the next 100 years due to an ongoing demographic ...

For the first time in modern history, the world’s population is expected to virtually stop growing by the end of this century, due in large part to falling global fertility rates, according to a Pew ...

The world’s population is likely to peak at 9.7 billion in 2064, and then decline to about 8.8 billion by the end of the century, as women get better access to education and contraception, a new ...

According to a projection by the United Nations, on Nov. 15, our world population will cross the 8 billion mark, just 11 years after the 7 billion milestone was commemorated, on Oct. 31, 2011.

More than half the world's population will be overweight or obese by 2035, says the World Obesity Federation in a new report. Obesity rates are said to be rising particularly fast among children.

The organization’s worldwide temperature analysis during this year’s Northern Hemisphere summer found 48 percent of the world’s population experienced at least 30 days of extreme heat that ...