While the number of Christians continued to grow from 2010 to 2020, the world’s population grew faster, according to the Pew ...

Theo Burman is a Newsweek Live News Reporter based in London, U.K. He writes about U.S. politics and international news, with a focus on infrastructure and technology. He has covered technological ...

It takes 2.1 births per woman to maintain a population size, barring immigration. More than half of the world’s countries have fallen below that rate. By the 2070s, senior citizens (age 65 and ...

Kanem is the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations sexual and reproductive health and rights agency On Nov. 15, the world’s population will hit 8 ...

The world’s population hit 8 billion on Tuesday ... fertility rates have already fallen well below what is needed to maintain the size of the population. Today, the UN estimates around two ...

Six decades from now is when the U.N. projects the size of the world population will peak. There won’t be any quick fixes: Even if it’s too early today to know exactly how to build an abundant ...