Tag: World Population

• 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.