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, according to the United Nations’ population projections for 2024. By 2054 ...

Could future maps give us a glimpse of what the world's population will look like in 2100? Experts are drawing up maps which ...

This is because two-thirds of the world's population live in countries with fertility rates below the "replacement rate." In developed countries, an average of 2.1 live births per woman is ...

While some might expect that to be Egypt or Greece, the country in question is a tiny landlocked republic with a population ...

China's population fell in 2024 for the third straight year. Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Ada Li speaks with John Lee and ...

An unofficial ranking of the world's cleverest countries based on criteria including number of Nobel Prize nominations and average IQ, among others.