Tag: World Population

• Saturday, July 13th 2024 - 20:08 UTC

  The entire world's population is expected to reach 10.3 billion by 2080

  

  After reaching 10.3 billion people by 2080, the world's population is projected to start dwindling, according to the ”World Population Prospects 2024″ document released this week. The study forecasted that the current population of 8.2 billion would keep soaring over the next 60 years and fall to 10.2 billion by the end of the century.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2018 - 17:42 UTC

  68% of the world population projected to live in urban areas by 2050, says UN

  

  Sustainable development depends more and more on the successful management of urban growth, especially in low-income and lower-middle-income countries where the pace of urbanization is projected to be the fastest.

• Monday, October 31st 2011 - 05:57 UTC

  Sometime Monday we’ll be seven billion people in the world, says UN division

  

  With more than two babies born every second, the arms on the world population clocks are whirling round so fast that no-one really knows how many people there are on Earth.