But incredibly, a new study from Aalto University in Finland suggests that our international governments are significantly ...

In this episode, Tom Goodwin talks to Greg Clark, an expert on sustainable urban transition.  Today, around 4.4 billion ...

A nuclear war expert has explained where the safest place to live would be if World War III was to break out, and it's not in ...

The urban population of the world has grown rapidly from 751 million ... While one in eight people live in 33 megacities worldwide, close to half of the world’s urban dwellers reside in much ...

For centuries, census and household surveys have been the backbone of population knowledge. But we’ve just returned from the ...

Currently, the UN estimates the world population to be about 8.2 billion ... over 40 per cent of the world's 8.2 billion people live in rural areas. They caution that the needs of rural residents ...

Even if fertility rates decline sharply, the large numbers of young people in the developed world will fuel population growth. Yes. Roughly 40 percent live in urban areas, compared with 76 percent ...

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 Population Review says: "No matter where they live in the world, most people have specific views on other countries. These views can be influenced by many possible factors, from the ...

Today, more than half of the world’s population – 4.4 billion people – lives in cities. This shift is set to continue, with the urban population expected to more than double by 2050, at which point ...

Two thirds of the world’s population in extreme poverty live in Sub-Saharan Africa, rising to three quarters when including all fragile and conflict-affected countries. About 72 percent of the world’s ...