World Population

The 0.9 per cent increase in 2024 was a slight slowdown from 2023, when the world population grew by 75 million people. In January 2025, 4.2 births and 2.0 deaths were expected worldwide every second, according to the estimates.

India’s population expected to rise for next three decades before starting to decline: UN projections

India has surpassed China to become the world’s most populous nation with 142.86 crore people, according to the latest UN data.

In Pics | World Population hits 8 billion, creating many challenges

The U.N.'s Day of 8 Billion milestone on November 15 is more symbolic than precise, officials are careful to note in a wide-ranging report released over the summer that makes some staggering projections. The upward trend threatens to leave even more people in developing countries further behind, as governments struggle to provide enough classrooms and jobs for a rapidly growing number of youth, and food insecurity becomes an even more urgent problem.

People of the world: 8 billion and counting

From the Catholic church’s displeasure with birth control to China’s one-child policy, somehow this is a place that balances itself when it comes to numerals.

In Pics | A look at how world population has grown since 1950

According to the United Nations report, world population is set to reach 8 billion on 15 November. A look at how the world population has grown since 1950, key trends and factors…

World population to reach 8 billion on November 15, says UN estimate

The report, released on World Population Day, said global population growth fell below 1% in 2020 and is growing at its slowest rate since 1950.

Too many, too less, too old… the many sides of the population debate

Union minister Prahlad Singh Patel has talked about bringing in a law to control population, here's a look at some other countries facing their own population dilemmas

“There won’t be enough people for Mars”: Elon Musk flags “population collapse”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is also the founder of aerospace company SpaceX, has often spoken about his dream of building cities on Mars.

In the year 2100, this is how a ranking of the world's 10 most populous countries could look like

This projection of world's 10 most populous countries in the year 2100 throws up some burning questions for India which may see a decline in working age population.

India will have higher population than China by 2027: UN report

In China, the population is projected to shrink by 2.2 percent or 31.4 million people by 2050

World Population Day: UN report says India will be the world's most populated country by 2027

By 2050, India’s population may increase by another 273 million.

World will have more cell phone accounts than

There are already more than 100 countries where the number of cell phone accounts exceeds their population, according to the ITU's "Measuring the ...