Some of the largest cities in the world are known for experiencing skyrocketing population growth that shows no signs of ...

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.

One in every 69 people, or 1.5 per cent of the entire world’s population, is now forcibly displaced. This is nearly double the 1 in 125 people who were displaced a decade ago. The number of displaced ...

The Norse explorer Erik the Red arrives in Greenland with a fleet of Viking ships, according to the medieval Icelandic sagas. The Norsemen established two settlements that had a peak population of ...

During his first trip to the New World in 1492, Christopher Columbus ... At the peak of the island's prosperity, the slave population totaled at least 500,000. (By comparison, only 32,000 whites ...

the population declined, or remained relatively static. This was due to the potato famine, which killed approximately one million people, and because of high levels of emigration to the New World ...

The world’s Middle Income Countries (MICs) are a diverse group by size, population, and income level. For the current 2024 fiscal year, low-income economies are defined as those with a GNI per capita, ...