In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying ...

This animated map shows how global populations are distributed across Earth by dividing the globe into slices covering 10% of ...

Elon Musk warns of a future population collapse as fertility rates fall below sustainable levels. A UN report confirms the ...

Hundreds of decisions—how to build roads, where to send medicine, how to plan for natural disasters—depend on knowing where people live. Over the past few decades, population maps have become powerful ...

The latest findings have “far-reaching consequences”, according to researchers, as current estimates suggest over 40 per cent of the world's 8.2 billion people live in rural areas.

Rural Population: Forgotten and Underestimated Current estimates place 43% of the world’s 8.2 billion people in rural areas—around 3.526 billion individuals. However, considering that this figure has ...

World rural population may have been undercounted anywhere between 53 per cent to 84 per cent over the study period between 1975 and 2010. Edited by: Abhinav Singh World News Mar 21, 2025 07:40 am IST ...

Population data critical for planning and development With current estimates placing 43 percent of the world's 8.2 billion people in rural areas, the new findings have far-reaching consequences.

The study focused on population maps for the period 1975–2010, due to a lack of dam data from later years. Findings showed 2010 datasets had the least bias, missing between one-third (32%) to ...

The map shows the location of the 307 rural areas analysed in the study. The reported populations in the graphic were found to be underestimated by between 53 and 84 percent. Global population ...

Although nearly two-thirds of the population were in poverty, according to the World Bank, and thousands lived in UN-run refugee camps, it also had hospitals, schools and shops. But Gaza - only ...

Could future maps give us a glimpse of what the world's population will look like in 2100? Experts are drawing up maps which can be used to predict the impact of climate change on the distribution ...