The world population is expected to climb to 9.7 billion in 2050 from 7.7 billion today, with the population of sub-Saharan Africa doubling, a United Nations report released Monday said. The study ...

According to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) by 2050, the global population is anticipated to grow to over 9 billion, which is likely to increase pressure ...

YOU’VE LIKELY HEARD the oft-repeated idea that half the five-year-olds of 2025 will live to be 100. For perspective, it means every other kindergartner you see this year will live until 2120. That’s a ...

Almost every country in the world has seen fertility rates decline over the past few decades, but one region's birth rates are still so high that it is expected to provide more than half the global ...

A new University of Oxford study finds that almost half of the global population (3.79 billion) will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2.0°C of global warming above ...