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 capital of Indonesia surpassed Tokyo as the world’s most populous city after the United Nations overhauled how it ...

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 report by the United ...

A Newsweek map shows the world’s 100 largest cities by population, according to updated United Nations data —including the only two U.S. metropolises to make the cut: New York and Los Angeles.

In a matter of hours, a baby born somewhere in the world will be the 8 billionth person on Earth. The United Nations is projecting that the world's population will hit eight billion on Tuesday, and ...

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 ...

Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, is now the world's most populous city, ahead of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, and Japan's Tokyo, ...

For hundreds of years, scientists have been concerned and curious about possible limits to world population, according to Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh and Piet Rietveld, professors of economics at the ...

Curaçao has made history by becoming the smallest nation by population to qualify for a World Cup. On Tuesday, it secured a 0-0 draw with Jamaica, finishing atop Group B with 12 points.

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 ...