Hundreds of decisions—how to build roads, where to send medicine, how to plan for natural disasters—depend on knowing where people live. Over the past few decades, population maps have become powerful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There could be billions more people on Earth than previously thought There could be billions more people living on Earth than ...

UN rankings updated using new criteria to better reflect the mass urban transformation driving a global shift in how we live—and the megacities emerging from it. A new United Nations report has ...

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 — the ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

I grew up in a world where it was customary to express the darkest misgiving about our future. There were just too many people, and, worse, they were growing too fast. It had taken the world 18 ...

One of the biggest issues of the 21 st century, yet to capture widespread attention, is rapidly changing expert projections of the global population over the coming decades. Not so long ago, ...