UNITED NATIONS — 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 major shift from a decade ago, a new ...

One in four people globally live in a country whose population has already peaked in size. 11 July 2024 - According to the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results published today, it is ...

The world's population reached 8 billion on Tuesday, growing by 1 billion in the last dozen years and reflecting the rapid population spike of the past few decades, with India projected to become the ...

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 ...

"The milestone is an occasion to celebrate diversity and advancements while considering humanity's shared responsibility for the planet," says UN Secretary-General António Guterres Kimberlee Speakman ...

Linden has written widely on climate change. His latest book is Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, From 1979 to the Present Global population surpassed 8 billion this week, a ...

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 compared to the beginning of 2023—but the world population will ...

The world population is predicted to peak at about 10.3 billion people in the 2080s, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations. The agency's 2024 World Population Prospects study ...