I am a reporter on the breaking news team based in New York City. The U.S. Census Bureau projects the world population will be 8,019,876,189 on January 1—an almost 1% increase of 75,162,541 ...

More than half of the world’s countries and areas have fertility rates that fall below replacement fertility – the 2.1 live births per woman required, in theory, to keep a population stable.

Major economies are heading toward a "population collapse" by 2100 because of falling fertility rates, new research has found. A report by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) on Wednesday, warns ...

You have current earners financing the retirement or the medical care of current retirees. When you live in a world where there are five or six current earners for every retiree, that’s great. You’re ...

The current world population of 7.3 billion is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, according to the “World Population Prospects: The 2015 ...

According to World Bank figures dating back to 1961, population growth in Egypt peaked at 2.8% in 1984-85 before declining to 1.9% in 2006 then surging again to 2.3% in 2014.