Parts of Asia and various small island nations are among the most densely populated countries in the world, according to data ...

PORTLAND, US, Mar 4 2025 (IPS) - As the world’s population increased five-fold since the start of the 20th century, the changes in the geographic distribution of the billions of people across the ...

Governments, international bodies and researchers rely on global population data for resource allocation and infrastructure planning to disease epidemiology and disaster risk management.

and by 2050 about 66 per cent of the world population will be living in cities. These megatrends have far-reaching implications. They affect economic development, employment, income distribution ...

The population of the world was relatively low and steady until the 1950s when there was a population ‘explosion’. Since then, there has been a rapid increase in the world’s population so ...