The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Monday.

The admonition that we must remember the past to avoid repeating it has always struck me as strange. If human history teaches ...

The 0.9% increase in 2024 was a slight slowdown from last year, when the world population grew by 75 million people. In January 2025, 4.2 births and 2.0 deaths were expected worldwide every second ...

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.

Today, young people aged 10 to 24 make up one quarter of the world’s population. The aspirations and achievements of these 1.8 billion people will obviously shape the future. Yet too many young people ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world's second most populous nation ...