For decades, we’ve been told that the world’s biggest problem is too many people. From Malthus in the 18th century to “The ...

Thomas Malthus was an 18th-century economist best known for his theories about population growth. Learn more about overpopulation and the Malthusian growth model.

The Malthusian population growth model, proposed in the 1700s, suggested that populations grow exponentially and outpace resource availability until inevitable checks, such as famine, disease ...

The world’s population is now eight billion people, more or less, according to a United Nations estimate. Modern Malthusians wring their hands over population growth, but the historical record ...

And gender equality and women’s empowerment can help counter population growth. The world’s population has grown dramatically in the last 75 years, from an estimated 2.6 billion in 1950 to 8 ...

Population growth is the main driver of increased emissions in all income groups except the upper-middle one. The successful reduction in per capita emissions that occurred in high-income ...

They say Australia's had a high population growth model in recent decades, more than almost any other developed country. But is it sustainable? Over the past 20 years, Australia's population has ...

Earlier this fall, the Met Council’s demographic office released its latest population growth projections, which take regional trends and population growth out to the year 2050 in as specific a ...

Between 2020 and 2030, Tennessee is projected to experience an annual population growth rate of 0.82%, an increase of approximately 600,000 people. According to the data, that's 35,000 more people ...