Despite lifting the one-child policy to allow three children, the fertility rate remains low. Most families cite the costs ...
Measured another way, the birth rate in 2025 — 5.63 per 1,000 people — is the lowest on record since 1949, the year that Mao ...
Furthermore, the existing governance mechanisms are increasingly disconnected from real-world challenges. While urgent issues ...
To understand why 1971 became the basis for India's constituencies, one has to revisit the Malthusian fears that dominated ...
The five largest megacities in the world have a combined population of almost 150 million people, roughly equal to Russia's total population. A megacity is a massive urban area with over 10 million ...
The world is now using so much fresh water amid the consequences of climate change that it has entered an era of water ...
The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...
According to Oxfam, the world now has 3,000 billionaires, and the gulf between the very rich and the rest of the world has ...
Although Curacao does not have any group stage games at Hard Rock Stadium, its federation opted to choose Boca Raton as its ...
The population of the world’s second most populous country dropped by 3.39 million in 2025 to 1.405 billion, a faster decline ...
A drawing of a claw-like hand on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia is now the oldest known rock art in the world. The ...