On November 15, the United Nations (UN) estimated the world’s population to have surpassed eight billion. This week, new demographic statistics from China show the country’s reported ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When you read on your computer screen that world population has ...

In 2019, the population of the world is 1,860 times the size of what it was 12,000 years ago — 4 million. 2. This chart shows how different world regions have grown since 1820. 3. This ...

The historian and cartography Bill Rankin, who maintains the blog Radical Cartography, created the fascinating histograms above, which show the world’s population distributed by longitude and ...

The chart summarizes the structure of the world economy and the distribution of its population based on ICP 2011 results. It incorporates three dimensions for each economy: population share, real GDP ...

The numbers are fascinating because they reflect the fact that two-thirds of the world's population share only 12 native languages. Those numbers were recently published by the University of ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. We are awash with data, and it keeps piling up: Some analysts ...

But between 2011 and 2014, 700 million adults became account holders, and the unbanked population fell ... for an explanation of the world's unbanked, in charts: The vast majority (94%) of adults ...

Press play or drag the button above to explore the world’s changing population ...

I am a reporter on the breaking news team based in New York City. The U.S. Census Bureau projects the world population will be 8,019,876,189 on January 1—an almost 1% increase of 75,162,541 ...