That was up from 2,300 in 1950. Old folks rule — at the ballot box The world is now home to an estimated 722,000 centenarians ...

Demographers debate exactly when it will happen, but there is a consensus now that in the second half of this century, the ...

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.

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the ...

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 ...

A Villager delivered an eyebrow-raising report on the future of the world’s population. Villages-News.com's Marv Balousek has details.

1 in Educated population Japan, one of the world’s most literate and technically advanced nations, is an East Asian country made up of four main islands. While most of Japan is covered by ...

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 ...