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The world is ageing rapidly. People aged 60 and older make up 12.3 per cent of the global population, and by 2050, that ...

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

From changing temperatures and weather patterns to more severe storms and rising sea levels, the effects of climate chan...

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 now lives ...

It took hundreds of thousands of years for the world population to grow to 1 billion – then in just another 200 years or...