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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Moldova, Croatia and Montenegro are the 10 European countries ...

The answers rely on population data. But counting people is getting harder. For centuries, census and household surveys have been the backbone of population knowledge. But we've just returned from ...

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.

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 ...

The world’s Middle Income Countries (MICs) are a diverse group by size, population, and income level. For the current 2024 fiscal year, low-income economies are defined as those with a GNI per capita, ...