STARKVILLE, Miss.—In 2023, the world’s population surpassed 8 billion. Mississippi State Social Science Research Center faculty are utilizing novel technology from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to ...

A new study suggests the global population may be much higher than current estimates, as rural populations worldwide are likely undercounted. The UN estimates Earth’s population at 8.2 billion and ...

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 ...

The global population is expected to hit nearly 9.7 billion people by 2050, but beyond that, the nature of the population itself is changing due to aging. This is expected to fuel a rise in the ...

For decades, we’ve been told that the world’s biggest problem is too many people. From Malthus in the 18th century to “The Population Bomb” in the 1960s, the warnings were dire: More people would mean ...

The report’s intention was to to show “how peace, health and emotional wellbeing rise and fall together,” by pairing Gallup’s ...

Once endangered, the global green sea turtle population is rebounding, according to a new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Top 10 largest cities in the world by population in 2025 list | Largest city in the world by population: Most of the world’s ...

The fight against malaria has stalled after two decades of progress, with climate change and population growth among factors ...

On the occasion of World Mission Day, to be celebrated on Sunday, Oct. 19, the Vatican news agency Fides presented statistics ...