Our global population continues to rise, hitting 8 billion in November 2022. However, the increase has been very uneven across the globe, with some countries showing explosive population growth while ...

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. We are living in an age of mass migration. Millions of people from the ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Dr. Geruso and Dr. Spears are economists and the authors of the forthcoming book “After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People.” We’ve all heard that human overpopulation is a crisis ...

Spain's birth rate has gone up for the first time in a decade, and it's largely thanks to immigration, several population experts have said. Countries all over the world are facing population crises ...

In 1970, a woman in Mexico might have expected to have seven children, on average. By 2014, that figure had fallen to around two. As of 2023, it was just 1.6. That means that the population is no ...

The World Development Report 1993, through extensive research and examples concluded that health is not merely a consequence of development — it is one of its preconditions ...

Societies do collapse, sometimes suddenly. Nevertheless, prophets of doom might keep in mind that their darkest predictions have been, on the whole, a little premature. In 1968, Paul Ehrlich, a ...