population

China is planning to scrap all limits on the number of children a family can have, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be a historic end to a policy that spurred countless human-rights abuses and left the world’s second-largest economy short of workers. … Read more...

Nigeria will be the third most populous country in the world by 2050, standing behind just India and China, a United Nations study has projected. Nigeria’s population, currently the seventh largest in the world, is growing most rapidly and is projected to surpass that of the United States by...