The last time the U.N. released its "World Urbanization Prospects" report was in 2018, when Tokyo was the world's most ...

I am a reporter on the breaking news team based in New York City. The U.S. Census Bureau projects the world population will be 8,019,876,189 on January 1—an almost 1% increase of 75,162,541 people ...

The Greater Tokyo Area has held the title of the world's most populous metropolitan region for decades but now it has been ...

World leaders are slowly making preparations to deal with global warming and the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. That represents major progress. Unfortunately, the world faces an ...

(AP) — The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year’s Day it will stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on ...

The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a new report by the United Nations said Thursday. The report ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world’s population ...

Once in a while, viral memes and outlandish Reddit claims turn out to be true. In 2022, a claim circulated on social media asserting that, on July 8, 99% of the world’s population would experience ...

A UN report reveals which cities will likely boast the largest populations in 2050 and predicts London's population will soar ...