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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

President Donald Trump’s plan to seek U.S. ownership of the Gaza Strip and move out its population has found a sympathetic ...

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, which is now ...