Most estimates place Earth’s human population at around 8.2 billion, but Josias Láng-Ritter—a postdoctoral researcher at ...

A recent study challenges the current estimate of 8.2 billion people on Earth, suggesting a significant miscalculation due to ...

With nearly half of the world’s population still living in rural areas, accurate data is paramount for achieving the United ...

Boffins from a top Scandinavian University made the ground breaking discovery, showing that we may have hundreds of millions ...

Global population data undercounts rural communities by up to 84%, impacting resource allocation and planning.

As the theme of this year’s World Population Day reminds us, investing in data collection is important to understanding problems, tailoring solutions, and driving progress. So is finance.

Governments, international bodies and researchers rely on global population data for resource allocation and infrastructure ...

The World Marriage Data 2019 provides a comparable and up-to-date set of data on the marital status of the population by age and sex for 232 countries or areas of the world. The database contains ...

Currently, the UN estimates the world population ... the lack of proper reference data has prevented attempts at comprehensively gauging the accuracy of global population datasets.

The United States fell to its lowest-ever place on the World Happiness Report, released on International Day of Happiness, ...

We break down the biggest stories — and the ones others overlook — so you can make sense of the world ... United Nations’ current spread of projections for the global population in 2100 ...