Weeks Population

The potential demographic consequences of climate change have been difficult to assess, but a new study published in the Proceedings of the...

In 1994, a genocidal war between Tutsis and Hutus left an estimated 800,000 Rwandans (about 20% of the population) dead. Victims were overwh...

Iran has one of the lowest levels of fertility of any Muslim-majority country, helped along by a long-term government policy aimed at keepin...

Using Ikea containers as props, Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute in Sweden, explains population growt...

Japanese women have been the longest-lived of any group of people for many years now, and a new report from the Japanese Ministry of Health,...