A stunning chart that shows the entire economic history of the world's most powerful countries over the past 2,000 years has been released by investment bank JP Morgan.

The United Nations-demarcated World Population Day on July 11 prompted a relook at the figure of the number of people in the world, and how each country is faring. The world’s population has now ...

This interactive graph shows just how much the world's population accelerated after 1900. In 2019, the population of the world is 1,860 times the size of what it was 12,000 years ago — 4 million. 2.

So, one way to read the graph, very broadly speaking, is that everything to the left of 1800 is an approximation of population distribution around the world and everything to the right of 1800 is ...

This metric helps us identify where growth in wealth occurred, as opposed to just growth in population (e.g.: India and China had thee-quarters of world GDP in 1 AD because they had three-quarters ...

For the first time in modern history, the world’s population is expected to virtually stop growing by the end of this century, due in large part to falling global fertility rates, according to a Pew ...

M any Americans will go through life on World Population Day 2016 and not once talk about the world’s population—which, is over 7.3 billion, at least according to the U.S. Census.But, at the ...

Global population growth is projected to continue well into the 21st century, with estimates suggesting the world's population will reach approximately 10.3 billion people by the mid-2080s ...

The history of World Population Day dates back to July 11, 1987, when the world population reached five billion people. ... By embracing the theme of sustainable population growth, ...

The global human population has been climbing for the past two centuries. But what is normal for all of us alive today — growing up while the world is growing rapidly — may be a blip in human ...