In half of all the world's countries, the fertility rate is already too low to maintain their population sizes, according to data collected by hundreds of international researchers and reported in The ...

Indonesia is the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world, with about 229 million Muslims currently who make up 87.2% of the country’s population. Indonesia is an economic powerhouse and by ...

India is poised to overtake China as the most populous country by 2050, according to recent findings from the Population Reference Bureau. India’s population is expected to swell to 1.62 billion, from ...

Almost every country in the world has seen fertility rates decline over the past few decades, but one region's birth rates are still so high that it is expected to provide more than half the global ...

Furthermore, urban population growth is expected to continue, reaching 60.7% by 2030 from 56.7% in 2021, intensifying demographic pressures on Greater Accra. By 2050, Ghana is also expected to see a ...

World Bank President Ajay Banga addressed the plenary session of the Annual Meetings earlier, highlighting the institution's ...

The World Bank on Friday said the pace of population growth is most staggering in Africa, estimating that Nigeria will swell ...

The current world population of 7.3 billion is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, according to the “World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision”, ...

We begin our list with Madagascar, where the number of Christians is projected to nearly double between 2020 and 2050. Despite that, the share of Christians in the country is forecasted to slightly ...