As the theme of this year’s World Population Day reminds us, investing in data collection is important to understanding problems, tailoring solutions, and driving progress. So is finance.

The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights, estimates that the next 30 years will see the global population add an extra 2 billion people to today's figure of 7.7 billion, and, by the end of ...

With current estimates placing 43% of the world's 8.2 billion people in rural areas, the new findings have far-reaching consequences. Official population estimates published by the UN and the ...