MANILA, Philippines – She came into the world at two minutes before midnight, a tiny, wrinkled girl born into a struggling Manila family. On Monday, she became a symbol of the world's population ...

Somewhere in the world on October 31, a baby will be born who for the first time in history will bring the planet's population to seven billion. The United Nations will this week be releasing a report ...

Africa's sheer numbers make its future hugely important to the future of the world as a whole, writes The Independent's Hamish McRae. Seven billion. Next week the world's population will, according ...

Tiny and innocent, little Danica May Camacho peers out at the world just moments after her birth at a hospital in the Philippines. However, Danica's birth is not only significant to mother Camille and ...

MANILA: Asia welcomed the world's first symbolic “seven billionth” baby on Monday, but celebrations were tempered by worries over the strain that humanity's population explosion is putting on a ...

While governments and institutions grapple with economic uncertainty and volatility, an important factor is often overlooked: demography. Demographic trends can provide relative certainty in the near ...

The study of global population trends, and the challenges they bring, has been one of the tasks that UN DESA has been focusing on almost since its inception. As we mark seven decades of economic and ...