Most estimates place Earth’s human population at around 8.2 billion, but Josias Láng-Ritter—a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University in Finland and lead author of the study published in the ...

We’ve all heard that human overpopulation is a crisis. In 2017, Bill Nye warned us about the planet’s “people problem,” and ...

The discovery of 2024 PT5, a small, rocky body dubbed a "minimoon" during its discovery last year, hints at a hidden population of lunar fragments traveling near Earth.

The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Monday.

World Population Day 2025 highlights a global population exceeding 8.2 billion, with India leading at 1.46 billion, ...

It also has 60% of the Earth's coastal population. In comparison, Africa has about 12%, Europe has 11%, North America has 9% and South America has 7%. But Africa has the fastest-growing population.

Even though there are 8 billion people on Earth today, a catastrophe could send that number much lower within a few decades.