The global population is expected to reach 7 billion Monday -- just 12 years after hitting 6 billion -- and the milestone has many pondering the complex challenges associated with billions more people on Earth in the coming years.
The world's population is forecast to hit 7 billion in 2011, the vast majority of its growth coming in developing and, in many cases, the poorest nations, a report released Wednesday said.
The United States became a nation of 300 million people Tuesday morning, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates.
At 7:46 ET Tuesday morning, the United States will become a nation of 300 million people, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates.
A new study finds that the U.S. is the world's fastest-growing industrialized nation. Here's how its population changes every hour.
The mix of citizens in developed countries is tilting toward the old. For youth, look to the Third World, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, where families average six-plus children each (see chart)....
Herewith more long-winded questions to which answers would be redundant at best, and besides, who would be crazy enough to believe them? ) Did the folks at Morgan Stanley ever gleefully consider th...
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