Egypt’s current population of 112 million is expected to continue rising, likely reaching 160 million by 2050. Due to improvements in healthcare and high fertility rates, this growth trend is ...

The United Nations projected India as the most populous country by 2100 leading 9 other countries, with fertility and ...

The world faces an unprecedented demographic shift that has governments and experts scrambling for solutions. While global ...

In early 2023, India surpassed China as the most populous country in the world with the latter having 850,000 fewer people by the end of 2022—marking the country’s first population decline since ...

Embargoed access to the paper and contact details for authors are available in Notes to Editors at the end of the release. By 2050, over three-quarters (155 of 204) of countries will not have high ...

Nigeria has been projected to emerge the third most populous country in the world by the year 2100. Population projections are attempts to show how the human population statistics might change in the ...

And by 2100, almost all countries (97%) are expected to have fertility rates below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman, the same report concludes. This trend will not happen everywhere all ...

The world's population reached 8 billion on Tuesday, growing by 1 billion in the last dozen years and reflecting the rapid population spike of the past few decades, with India projected to become the ...

The U.S. population is expected to peak in 2080 and shrink by the end of the century, according to a new Census Bureau estimate released Thursday. It’s the first time the bureau has ever projected a ...

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, arrives with his son for a meeting with Senator John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, not pictured, on Capitol Hill on Dec. 5, 2024. Elon Musk has said that declining ...