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How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis

Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels …

Have we vastly underestimated the total number of people on Earth?

A new way of estimating rural populations has found that we may be undercounting people who live in these areas, potentially inflating the global population beyond the official count of 8.2 billion – but not everyone agrees

Global gridded population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population - Nature Communications

This research reveals that widely used global population data heavily underestimate rural population. If not carefully considered, these errors in the data can cause inequitable access to resources and services for rural communities around the globe.

World population could peak at 10.3B by 2080s: UN

The report — released on World Population Day — says the global population is then expected to decline to around 10.2 billion by the end of the century.

World population could peak at 10.3B by 2080s: UN

The report — released on World Population Day — says the global population is then expected to decline to around 10.2 billion by the end of the century.

Global population predictions offer ‘hopeful sign’ for planet, UN says

Projected high of 10.3bn people is lower and will come earlier than expected, analysis suggests

World population at 8 billion on January 1, up 75 million this year

On December 28 data released by the US Census Bureau showed that the global population grew by 75 million people over the past year