UN: World’s population is projected to peak at 10.3 billion in the 2080s. Many countries have already peaked According to the report, in 2024 population has already peaked in 63 countries and ...

Andrew J Tatem works for the University of Southampton, and is Director of WorldPop. His research on mapping populations has been funded by donors such as the Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, GAVI.

The Population Reference Bureau is a private, nonprofit organization which informs people around the world about population, health and the environment for research or academic purposes. It was ...

China's population is shrinking, and the demographic shift will ultimately hurt its economy, shrink the labor force and put pressure on fiscal policy. Raising the retirement age is "one of the few ...

Hundreds of decisions—how to build roads, where to send medicine, how to plan for natural disasters—depend on knowing where people live. Over the past few decades, population maps have become powerful ...

Parts of Asia and various small island nations are among the most densely populated countries in the world, according to data from the World Bank. The findings, mapped by Newsweek, show that while ...

An enumerator (right) takes a resident of Mikanjuni, Mtwapa in Kilifi County through the census questions during the 2019 national population census. [Omondi Onyango, Standard] If there is a ...