Jacque Schrag/Axios People in the year 2100 will be younger in Africa, and dramatically older in East Asia and Europe, as power tilts sharply toward the global South, per the U.S. Census Bureau's ...
Large parts of Mumbai face increasing flood risks from storms and sea-level rise. AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool Coastal populations are expanding quickly around the world. The rise is evident in burgeoning ...
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, ...
UNITED NATIONS — The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major shift from a decade ago, a new ...
According to the United Nations, the world’s population just surpassed 8 billion on Nov. 15, 2022. This milestone, of course, is being condemned in some quarters as a threat to "sustainable ...
The global population crossed the 7 billion mark in 2011 and should hit 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s. People 65 and older are expected to outnumber kids 18 and younger by the year 2080.The world's ...
I am a reporter on the breaking news team based in New York City. The U.S. Census Bureau projects the world population will be 8,019,876,189 on January 1—an almost 1% increase of 75,162,541 people ...
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Researchers are projecting the world’s population to peak in 2080, with more than 10.13 billion people on Earth, before the population begins to drop. New human population projections were released ...
Global population is expected to reach 8 billion later this year before peaking at around 10.4 billion in six decades, according to new United Nations projections. The new data from the UN’s “World ...
Imagine a world where 99.9% of the global population has vanished—a concept explored throughout history, from biblical floods ...
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Coastal populations are expanding quickly around the world. The rise is ...