There were about as many deadly bear attacks in Japan in just 2025 as there are in the United States in the average decade.

You find what space you can in Burundi, where 14m people squeeze into an area not much bigger than Wales or Massachusetts.

By Simone McCarthy, Rosa de Acosta, Joyce Jiang, CNN Beijing (CNN) — Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time. As the 30-year-old from Beijing and his wife consider ...

Physicist Heinz von Foerster, claimed in 1960 that the world would end sometime in the 2020s, according to a report in Time ...

Experts from 1926 imagined what life would be like in 100 years. Suggestions included food nozzles, wealthy teachers, ...

This month, Florida allowed the first black bear hunt in 10 years after the last one was ended abruptly over too many killed.

Remember that Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' song about New York being a city of dreams where anything is possible? They weren’t ...

Discover the significance of the working-age population, typically aged 15-64, in shaping economic outcomes and employment trends. Learn how demographics affect economies.

According to a new report from Swiss bank UBS, the world now has 2,919 billionaires, an 8.8% increase from the previous year. The U.S. is home to a substantial portion of the world’s billionaires.

UN rankings updated using new criteria to better reflect the mass urban transformation driving a global shift in how we live—and the megacities emerging from it. A new United Nations report has ...

Asia is home to nine of the world's 10 most populous cities in 2025, according to the United Nations. A new report identifies Jakarta, with 42 million residents, as having the largest population ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...