Vladimir Putin is facing a catastrophic decline in demographics as a plunging birth rate and the ongoing war in Ukraine take its toll, new data has suggested ...

The red-billed quelea is the most abundant wild bird species in the world.

* Over 8 billion people live on Earth today, with the next billion coming fast * Fertility rates are declining in 60+ countries, while Africa drives future growth * Urbanization, //aging, and climate ...

Have Jews made up for the loss of people killed in the Holocaust? The answer is no,” said Jonathan Sarna, a professor of ...

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS), on Wednesday, July 2, ...

Vital Records Index NYC reports global population is set to peak at 10.3B by 2080s, then decline, prompting economic and ...

India’s population is estimated to have reached 146.39 crore by April, says a new UN demographic report, which adds that the country’s total fertility rate (TFR) has declined to 1.9, falling ...

While Christians remained the world’s largest religious group at the end of the decade that ended in 2020, Christianity’s growth did not keep up with global population increase. But Islam ...

Currently, the UN estimates the world population to be about 8.2 billion, which is projected to peak at over 10 billion by the mid-2080.

More information: Global gridded population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56906-7 ...

The study focused on population maps for the period 1975-2010, due to a lack of dam data from later years. Findings showed 2010 datasets had the least bias, missing between one-third (32%) to ...

The world population is projected to reach 8.09 billion on January 1, 2025, after witnessing an increase of over 71 million people in 2024, as per the estimates by the US Census Bureau.