Shark populations still dwindling

A decade after members of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO) approved an international plan to conserve sharks, a new analys...

Population growth damages Australian standard of living

Data released recently by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) suggest that those states with the highest rates of population growth ...

Ageing: world population faces watershed

Author: Carl Haub Author Info: Carl Haub is a senior demographer at the Population Reference Bureau. The world's populati...

Making the population-poverty connection

Author: Lester R. Brown The 21st century began on an inspiring note: the United Nations set a goal of reducing the share of t...

World population reaches turning point

World population has reached a transition point: the rapid growth of the second half of the 20th century has slowed, but numbers will reac...

Population growth steady as climate heats up

Author: Robert Engelman Throughout the first decade of the 21st century, the world has continued to add the equivalent of a ...

Population trends: an influence on climate change

Changes in population growth and composition, including ageing and urbanization, could significantly affect global emissions of carbon d...

New food system needed to feed world's growing population

A new report, published by Foresight, the UK Government’s futures think tank, argues for fundamental change to the global food system, a...

Global food crisis looms as climate change and population growth strip fertile land

Malthusian fears that population growth will outstrip food supplies have been widely dismissed as food production kept well ahead of growi...

New population projections 'a wake-up call'

New world population projections for the year 2050 by the United Nations expect world population to rise by 2.5 billion people from today...

Population and human development - the key connections

We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless ...

Population Growth Is Still The Biggest Problem Facing Humanity

This is a guest post by Gary Peters, a retired geography professor with a long time interest in population issues. Earth’s population is ap...

Population Issues

Overview The work of UNFPA encompasses a wide range of issues (see menu bar). However, the three main areas of focus — reproductive h...

Maps Distort Countries by Carbon Emissions, Population, Other Statistics

Earth (TGW) - Online cartographers have taken a different look at how maps are made. Cartographers Danny Dorling and Anna Barford of the Uni...