population growth

UN: 26% of world lacks clean drinking water

Mar 22, 2023

A new report launched Tuesday on the eve of the first major U.N. conference on water in over 45 years says 26% of the world’s population.

Globally one in eight people today are migrants: WHO

Nov 28, 2022

Globally one in eight or over one billion people today are migrants with 281 million international migrants and many million

Unmanaged water resources causing Pakistan floods

Nov 27, 2022

Despite Pakistan having the world's fourth-largest aquifer, natural resources including freshwater sources are under constant depletion in Pakistan.

Population hits 8 billion, creating more issues

Nov 16, 2022

The world’s population will likely hit an estimated 8 billion people on Tuesday, according to a United Nations projection, with much of the growth coming from developing nations in Africa.

China encourages couples to have 3rd child amid demographic crisis

Jan 30, 2022

Amidst a demographic crisis, China is happily rolling out a slew of supportive measures to encourage couples to have a third child.

Nepal's population expected between 28-30 million

Nov 26, 2021

As the fertility rate of Nepali women is declining, the population growth rate is not expected to increase.

Exposure to extreme heat has tripled since 1983

Nov 12, 2021

Social stress may contribute to population decline: Study

Sep 8, 2021

A University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental health scientist has developed an "overlooked hypothesis" to help explain the projected global population decline beginning in 2064: social stress.