By Ezinwanne OnwukaNigeria is growing at breakneck speed, and so is its religious divide. As the country’s population races toward 350 million by 2050, demographic projections suggest Muslims w ...

The Factbook, a version of which dates to 1962, provided facts, figures, maps and more to generations of economists, professors, journalists and others.

One in four people globally live in a country whose population has already peaked in size. 11 July 2024 - According to the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results published today, it is ...

A new report from the World Inequality Lab, the product of four years of comprehensive research, finds that economic inequality on a world scale continues to increase by leaps and bounds, with vast ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...

More than 80 per cent of people worldwide now live in towns and cities, according to a major United Nations report, and this figure is set to rise further, underscoring the need to ensure urban areas ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. PORTLAND, Maine — One of the rarest whales on the planet has continued an encouraging trend of population growth ...

From deaths of people and businesses to changes in the housing market, there are a lot of reasons cities lost residents due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But which ones have recovered and which ones still ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa ...

According to the World Population Review, the world's most populous cities remain concentrated in Asia and Latin America. Tokyo, Delhi, and Shanghai continue to lead in population size, while cities ...

The world’s Jewish population has yet to recover from the Holocaust that wiped out more than a third of its members, a stunning new analysis shows. There were an estimated 16.6 million Jews alive in ...