World Population Day is an annual reminder of the urgent and complex issues surrounding global population growth. More than that, it offers the world to reflect on both the challenges, such as ...

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, ...

For decades, we’ve been told that the world’s biggest problem is too many people. From Malthus in the 18th century to “The Population Bomb” in the 1960s, the warnings were dire: More people would mean ...

Falling fertility rates typically get blamed on the women of the world. But a new study published by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says both men and women “face significant barriers to ...

Two years after surpassing a population of 8 billion in 2022, the number of people on this planet has grown much faster in some countries than others. As part of the United States government's World ...

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 ...

Every year, on July 11th, the world observes World Population Day. This significant occasion serves as a powerful reminder to raise global awareness about crucial population issues, including rapid ...

Global population will soon decline for the first time since the Black Death, but this time it’s due to human choices, not disease. Falling birthrates will lead to shrinking, aging societies worldwide ...

Population growth, when unaccompanied by strong human development, traps an economy in a cycle of low productivity and low ...

This series—featuring scholars from the Futures Lab, the International Security Program, and across CSIS—explores emerging challenges and opportunities that NATO is likely to confront after its 75th ...