Population density data has been visualized in a million and one ways, but the best interpretations are those that force you to look at things differently. And those new insights might be closer to ...

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 ...

There could be billions more people living on Earth than currently thought, according to a new study which claims rural figures worldwide could be vastly underestimated. Currently, the UN estimates ...

The world’s population is expected to shrink in the second half of the 21st century, according to researchers. The research, which is published in The Lancet medical journal, forecasts mortality, ...

Newborn babies at a Mumbai hospital on World Population Day 2017. The UN projects that by 2027 India will surpass China as the world’s most populous country. (Kunal Patil/Hindustan Times via Getty ...

This animated map shows how global populations are distributed across Earth by dividing the globe into slices covering 10% of the Earth’s population. You can see the largest cities in each slice.

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 ...

The world’s population could swell to 10.9 billion by the end of the century, a new United Nations analysis found, raising concerns that adding more than 3 billion people to the planet could further ...

Crowds of people on a beach in Brighton, England. Globally, fertility rates are decreasing at significant rates, leading to a prediction of peak global population in a little over 4 decades. The ...

In the 2006 dystopian action film Children of Men, humanity is in a bit of trouble. For reasons which aren’t wholly understood, humanity has experienced 18 years of infertility. The youngest human on ...