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 new report by the United Nations said Thursday. The report ...

There is a day for just about anything, including the world's population. Did you know that Every July 11th is World Population Day? This international day was established by the Governing Council of ...

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 ...

Also today: Gig drivers in Indonesia warn of mass protest, and Chicago schools return to the municipal bond market.

The world population grew by 75 million people over the last year and on New Year’s Day it will stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday ...

Online posts that claim the United Kingdom has the highest per capita rape rate among the world's developed economies are ...

A shrinking population will have profound consequences. It will turn expectations about everything from housing to greenhouse ...

I regularly talk to well-informed people who do not realize that world population growth is rapidly decelerating. Currently, the UN estimates the most likely case is that the world’s population will ...