More than half the global population now owns a smartphone, marking a three percentage point increase from last year. However, about 3.4 billion people still lack access to this essential technology.

World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results adopts the analytical framework of the demographic transition—the historic shift towards longer lives and smaller families—approximated here by the ...

University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia. The economic and demographic arguments against a smaller population must be balanced with the benefits for the environment and, in turn, for human ...

The total net worth of the UHNW class rose by 6.7% to $59.8 trillion at the end of June 2025 NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Altrata, a leader in intelligence on the wealthy and ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. China’s population is now declining. Last week, officials announced that 2022 ...

The long-expected milestone officially makes the East Asian nation a "super-aged society," according to the United Nations benchmark, joining neighboring Japan, which passed the 20-percent threshold ...

Across the world, governments adopted population-trimming policies, from massively subsidized birth control to promoting two-worker households to China's draconian "one child" policy. Getty Images I ...

FILE - Homes in suburban Salt Lake City are shown, April 13, 2019. According to estimates released Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, by the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. population grew by 1.2 million people ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's West Bank settler population now makes up more than half a million people, a pro-settler group said Thursday, crossing a major threshold. Settler leaders predicted even ...