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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 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 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.

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 ...

The Pew Research study had made this estimate for the 45-year period between 2015 to 2060, noting that in 2015, the Muslim population was 1.8 billion globally, which is expected to cross the three ...