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The world is ageing rapidly. Between 1974 and 2024, the worldwide share of people aged 65 almost doubled – increasing...

Millions of people are born, married and die without leaving a trace of their existence in official legal records. The W...

The population and housing census is among the most complex and massive peacetime exercises a nation can undertake. It r...

From changing temperatures to strengthening storms and rising sea levels, the effects of climate change are impacting al...

Sustainable development cannot be achieved without assuring that all women and men, and girls and boys, enjoy the dignit...

In 2015, 244 million people, or 3.3 per cent of the world's population, lived outside their country of origin. The major...

The world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history.  More than half of the world’s population n...

It took hundreds of thousands of years for the world population to grow to one billion – then in just another 200 years ...