The world's population is expected to peak at 10.3 billion in 2084 and then decline to 10.2 billion through the end of the ...

For half a century, fertility rates around the world have been drifting downwards thanks to a confluence of rising education ...

Far more families are choosing to have fewer — or no — children. Many countries, including the U.S., now face a rapidly aging ...

A United Nations report released last week predicts the world population to top out in 2084, nearly two decades sooner than estimates from 2022.

Compared with 50 years ago, life expectancy is greater in every country. Three of every four children who would have died ...

The long-term growth of the world’s economy depends on the interplay of two forces: lower population means fewer one-in-a-million innovators, but better standards of living and education mean ...

The world’s population is poised to decline—and that’s great news. Chandran Nair. Updated August 29, 2024 at 7:13 AM. Copied; Ashish Vaishnav - SOPA Images - LightRocket- Getty Images.

India's population is projected to peak at around 1.7 billion in the early 2060s before gradually declining but it will ...

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 ...

The world’s population has grown dramatically in the last 75 years, from an estimated 2.6 billion in 1950 to 8 billion in November 2022. Since then, it has increased by roughly 2.5% to 8.2 billion.