The world’s fast-growing megacities are mostly in Asia and Africa—a tropical belt that’s at high risk of floods as global ...

Population growth, when unaccompanied by strong human development, traps an economy in a cycle of low productivity and low ...

China’s status as a global superpower was unimaginable just half a century ago. In the 1970s, the country was overwhelmingly ...

Falling birthrates, rising longevity and artificial intelligence will reshape the global economy in the coming century.

The 11th Precision Medicine and the Future of Genomics (PMFG) Summit 2025 opened yesterday in the presence of Chairperson of ...

In Africa and the developing world, nations are wrestling with a profound question: how do you transform the energy of a growing youth population into tangible economic and social progress? In Rwanda, ...

Can costlier contraception and cheaper support services push procreation and avoid the oncoming demographic crisis?

The British Netflix drama Adolescence broke global viewing records and ignited fierce debate about digital safety. It struck ...

Africa leads the world in mobile money. It is the world’s top supplier of many critical minerals. Now it must leverage its ...

WWF experts work with coastal communities around the world to improve management, implement climate-smart restoration, and ...

Our world is becoming increasingly urban. Cities are now home to 45 per cent of the global population of 8.2 billion, according to UN DESA’s World Urbanization Prospects 2025: Summary of Results, ...

Dr Zeba Sathar says 6m "unwanted pregnancies" reported in country every year; Dr S. Akbar Zaidi notes Pakistan’s economy in a ...