The world's population growth has slowed markedly. At the same time the global working-age share peaked in 2012 and is now declining with seismic implications. Population trends vary widely among ...

During the past 50 years, the world's population has increased dramatically—a trend that is projected to continue. Most future growth will occur in less developed countries, where the population is ...

Global population growth is projected to continue well into ... this increase reflects ongoing demographic trends that, while slowing, continue to add numbers to the global count.

This growth is the result of two trends: on the one hand ... middle-income countries contain around 50 per cent of the global population, they contribute around 85 per cent of global emissions ...

Developing economies—which fuel 60 percent of global growth—are projected to finish the first quarter of the 21st century ...

Even if fertility rates decline sharply, the large numbers of young people in the developed world will fuel population growth. Yes. Roughly 40 percent live in urban areas, compared with 76 percent ...

many countries would be unable to adjust to domestic demographic trends. A recent report by UN DESA, Global Population Growth and Sustainable Development, examines the linkages between global ...

constituting 0.7 per cent of the total world population of 7.8 billion people at the time. The increase in the population of the GCC countries during the past three years was 1.3 million people. The ...

China’s population has fallen for the third straight year, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second ...