According to global urbanist Greg Clark, 55 years from now, the world’s population will have peaked, and nearly all of it ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.