Most popes have come from Europe, even though there are countries in South and Central America, Asia, and Africa with ...

Currently, the UN estimates the world population to be about 8.2 billion, which is projected to peak at over 10 billion by the mid-2080. However, research, published in the journal Nature ...

The world's urban population is expected to grow by 1.8 percent a year between 2000 and 2030, almost twice as fast as global population growth. By 2007, the majority of the global population will be ...

One in every 69 people, or 1.5 per cent of the entire world’s population, is now forcibly displaced. This is nearly double the 1 in 125 people who were displaced a decade ago. The number of displaced ...

Average life expectancy for both men and women is 76. Roughly 240 million people, or 20 percent of the developed-world population, are 60 years or older. With declining birth rates and increasing ...