MANILA, Philippines – She came into the world at two minutes before midnight, a tiny, wrinkled girl born into a struggling Manila family. On Monday, she became a symbol of the world's population ...

Africa's sheer numbers make its future hugely important to the future of the world as a whole, writes The Independent's Hamish McRae. Seven billion. Next week the world's population will, according ...

Somewhere in the world on October 31, a baby will be born who for the first time in history will bring the planet's population to seven billion. The United Nations will this week be releasing a report ...

MANILA: Asia welcomed the world's first symbolic “seven billionth” baby on Monday, but celebrations were tempered by worries over the strain that humanity's population explosion is putting on a ...

Tomorrow is Seven Billion Day, according to the United Nations. The day we resuscitate our fears about the population bomb. You can follow the countdown second by ...

While governments and institutions grapple with economic uncertainty and volatility, an important factor is often overlooked: demography. Demographic trends can provide relative certainty in the near ...

The study of global population trends, and the challenges they bring, has been one of the tasks that UN DESA has been focusing on almost since its inception. As we mark seven decades of economic and ...