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 ...

A new infographic by Visual Capitalist has ranked Macau as the most densely populated area in the world, far outstripping ...

March 20 (UPI) --The world's Catholic population has grown, but the number of priests has fallen, according to a new report that looks at the latest available data. The Vatican announced the figures ...

Elon Musk has said that declining birth rates present “the biggest danger civilization faces by far.” In fact, he quips that ...

World Population Day 2025 , observed on 11 July, centres around the theme: "Empowering young people to create the families they want in a fair and hopeful world." Established by the United Nations in ...

Newsweek spoke to several experts about what positive cultural shifts the birth rate decline is illustrative of.

Islam grew faster than any other major religious group globally from 2010 to 2020, according to estimates released on Monday from Pew Research Center, a U.S.-based think tank. Over the period, the ...

Jews are the smallest religious group analyzed separately in this report, accounting for 0.2% of the global population. Most Jews live either in North America (primarily in the United States) or in ...

India now has the world’s second-largest online population, boasting over 806 million internet users, as noted by Statista, ...

Islam is the second-largest religion in the world, boasting over 1.8 billion followers across the globe with Muslims forming a major chunk of the global population. The combined economy of Islamic ...