The Population Council was established in 1952 to find solutions to the world's population problems. Although based in New York, the Council is an international non-profit organization with regional offices in Bangkok, Cairo, Dakar, Mexico...

A population is the number of individuals of a given species, usually within a specified habitat or area. Within the science of ecology, the study of population dynamics, or the ways in which the number of individuals in a community expands and...

Population growth is the change in population over time, and can be quantified as the change in the number of individuals in a population per unit time. The term population growth can technically refer to any species, but almost always refers to humans,...

As I drove to work Tuesday morning, October 17, WTOP radio in Washington, D.C., broadcast a report on the Census Bureau's population clock, which at 7:46 a.m. estimated that the number of people in the United States had reached 300 million. Based on...

The growth rate of Medicare enrollees significantly exceeds the growth rate of the general population. Moreover, the group of enrollees aged 85 years or Over is growing Proportionately faster than all other groups of the aged. These phenomena and other interesting trends of...

After a year of steady growth, New Orleans' rate of repopulation nearly flatlined late last year, according to a report released Tuesday.The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, which determines whether households are occupied by monitoring their mail delivery, found such deliveries in November to...

The Census estimates out last week showed double-digit percentage growth in the South and the West since 2000. But in the Northeast--and in the Midwest--population growth was paltry. The population of the Northeastern United States increased only 2 percent from April 1, 2000 through July...

Provides information regarding the over growth of the human population. Examines the impact of overpopulation on environmental resources.

The world's population is estimated to grow from five billion people today to nine billion by 2050. Such a rapid increase in population will degrade and overwhelm the earth's biophysical environment, land, food-producing capacity and other natural resources on which all life depends.