The world’s population will reach 8 billion people on Tuesday, representing a “milestone in human development” before birth rates start to slow, according to a projection from the United ...

The below chart is an exercise in gauging the facts in terms of population growth across the major groups of countries within global equities.

Nearly 70 per cent of the world's countries have seen their populations double since 1960, Daily Mail can reveal. Mesmerising charts show how the global population has rocketed to exceed 8billion ...

The world is set to have 200mn fewer people than previously expected by 2100, according to a UN report that highlights the dramatic impact of falling birth rates on the global population.

Source: An Aging World: 2015 You can see in the chart that the elderly population is growing much faster than the child population is shrinking.

China was until recently the world’s most populous nation, accounting for a sixth of the global population. But China, too, is now declining, with the fall expected to rapidly accelerate.

John Bongaarts, Population Growth and Global Warming, Population and Development Review, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1992), pp. 299-319 ...

That’s what the global population is expected to reach in November, for the first time ever. Even as birth rates are retreating worldwide, couples continue to have babies, and later this year we ...