This year marks the 30th anniversary of the landmark International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).

Around the world, diverse initiatives are being introduced to manage population changes.

The global population has crossed the eight billion milestone today and this landmark has resulted in people across the world focusing on demographic trends.

A baby born somewhere on Tuesday will be the world's eight billionth person, according to a projection by the United Nations.

How far have we come, and where are we headed?

Rising uncertainties are making global compromise and cooperation more unlikely

The world's population is expected to increase by 2 billion persons in the next 30 years, from 7.7 billion currently to 9.7 billion in 2050, according to a new United Nations report launched on Monday.

The richest one percent of the world's population now own more than the rest of us combined, aid group Oxfam says, on the eve of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.

India records a population of 127,42,39,769, which is growing at a rate of 1.6 per cent a year, and could make the country the most populous in the world by 2050