In 1804, the world population finally reached 1 billion. Over the next 218 years, the gaps between reaching the next billion mark would become shorter and shorter until, in 2022, the UN announced that ...

The world’s population is currently around 8.2 billion. Wait, is it actually? A new study suggests that governments, international bodies, and researchers may have dramatically underestimated the ...

Current demographic studies are based on the Malthusian principle of population, which makes a direct extrapolation of the natural law of population of the animal kingdom to the human system. This is ...