The idea that the human population might experience limits to growth was posed in 1798 in Thomas Malthus's "An Essay on the Principle of Population Growth" and has generated debate for over 200 years.

Thomas Robert Malthus was an influential British economist best known for his theory on population growth, outlined in his 1798 book "An Essay on the Principle of Population." In it, Malthus ...

According to the World Bank, more than half of the world’s population (4.4 billion people) lives in cities. This shift is set to continue and nearly 7 in 10 people will live in cities by 2050. Thank ...

A new report on population growth and sustainable development from the Population Division of UN DESA revisits the complex relationships linking population increase to social and economic ...

U.S. population growth drops to lowest rate since nation’s founding in pandemic’s first year This past year was the first time since 1937 that the nation’s population grew by less than 1 ...