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The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights, estimates that the next 30 years will see the global population add an extra 2 billion people to today's figure of 7.7 billion, and, by the end of ...

With 2050 just a few decades away ... More than half of the world's population may not have adequate access to water. Today, 1.1 billion people lack access to water. And 2.5 billion people ...

Here’s one way to visualize the imprecision: Any time you’re looking at a chart of future population projections, there is a ...

New York, 16 May - Today, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. Projections show that urbanization, the gradual shift in ...

2007 was the first year in which more people lived in urban areas than in rural areas, and by 2050 about 66 per cent of the world population will be living in cities. These megatrends have far ...

The world is greying—rapidly. By 2050, 22% of the global population will be aged 60 or above, up from just 12% in 2015. This demographic shift isn’t a societal challenge; it’s a colossal economic ...

Demographers project that world population will rise to 9 billion by 2050 and level off somewhere between 9–12 billion people by the end of the century. In many modern societies, more people ...

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 ...