With falling population growth rates, we will see more elderly per worker. And we may get fewer "1 in a million" innovators.

The world’s population ... had been added to the global population in just 12 years. “This unprecedented growth is due to the gradual increase in human lifespan owing to improvements in ...

Today, questions about the limits to human population growth remain unanswered. Will the same factors that have already begun to limit growth in the world's more developed countries — declining ...

The U.N. predicts the world population will reach eight billion ... half of pregnancies worldwide are unintended. Human population growth is actually slowing, according to the U.N. It took ...

When the human race — Homo sapiens sapiens ... a human-dominated planet and the momentum of human population growth, together with the imperative for further economic development in most of the world, ...

In contrast, everyone 45 years old or older today has seen more than a doubling of human numbers from three billion in 1960 to 6.5 billion in 2005. The peak population growth rate ever reached ...

The trend of population growth follows across the country, including in regions that saw 'years of steady decline.' ...

On 23 February, the new report will be launched at the Future of the World Global ... between population growth, socioeconomic development and environmental change. The human population has ...

Right now, human population ... rich country problems? No. Population growth in Brazil, a large middle-income country, is now the slowest on record. By 2100, the world is expected to have just ...

4. Although the human population is growing, the rate of growth has been slowing, and the average birth rate across the world is actually falling. In Britain we have an average of 1.7 babies per ...