In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying ...

This animated map shows how global populations are distributed across Earth by dividing the globe into slices covering 10% of ...

Vital Records Index NYC reports global population is set to peak at 10.3B by 2080s, then decline, prompting economic and ...

Explore the disappearance of ancient powerful countries which were once powerful, mighty and stood strong in the annals of ...

Hundreds of decisions—how to build roads, where to send medicine, how to plan for natural disasters—depend on knowing where people live. Over the past few decades, population maps have become powerful ...

Newsweek compared the number of U.S. holidays with the rest of the world after President Donald Trump said there were "too many." ...

Iran is predominantly Shia Muslim, making up about 90 percent of the population, while Sunni Muslims and other Muslim sects ...

Research featuring Carr Center's Erica Chenoweth. Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to ...

There is one birth every 9 seconds and one death every 11 seconds. Top 10 countries with the highest population (2025): See where Nigeria ranks [Big Think] A Agnes Isoje As of July 1, 2025, the ...

Islam has increased its share of the world population, the Pew Research Center found in a report released Monday. The Muslim population increased by 1.8 percentage points to 25.6 percent, according to ...

The religiously unaffiliated population is the world’s third-largest religious category and grew the second-fastest between 2010 and 2020, according to Pew Research Center. This group includes ...