What's the Ideal Number of Humans on Earth?
Earth might be looking a little worse for wear, after the last four-hundred years of reckless wide-scale resource…
Watch How the World's Population Has Grown Over the Years
It took a long time to get going. But once we did, damn, we kind of got out of control didn’t we?
What If the Entire World's Population Lived in One City?
Here’s a thought exercise that starts getting kind of gross the deeper you dive into it: what if the entire world’s…
See the Exact Moment the World's Biggest Cities Were Born
The world is urbanizing faster than ever, with over half of the planet’s population currently living in cities—more…
Bring on the Men: Sweden Sees Male Surplus For First Time in Centuries
Europe has what you may call a man problem.
How Many People Can the Earth Actually Hold?
There’s over 7 billion people on this planet of ours and some estimates peg the population to reach 10 billion by the…
The People Moving Back Into Big American Cities Are Mostly Rich White People
We keep hearing that this is the age of rapid urbanization: By 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will live in…
Cougars Will Repopulate American Midwest In Next 25 Years
Outside the Florida Everglades, cougars haven’t lived east of the Rockies in over 100 years. But, a new study finds…
Population Doomsday Scientist Attacks Pope's Climate Message
In a rare note of dissent from a prominent scientist, Paul Ehrlich is denouncing Pope Francis’s call to action on…
Houston Will Dethrone Chicago as America's Third-Biggest City Within a Decade
It’s Space City versus the Second City: According to new reports, massive job growth in Houston will soon propel it…
Data Visualization Shows How Segregated Our Cities Are
The University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service has assembled a map that shows just how segregated…
What The World Would Look Like If Countries Were Scaled By Population
Redditor TeaDranks has created a super-interesting cartogram in which the size of each country is apportioned according…
​Even World War III Won't Prevent A Population Bomb, Say Scientists
A new study concludes that strict fertility measures, such as a one-child policy, or even a mass catastrophe like a…
The Great Public Holiday Exodus, Visualiszd Using Cellphone Data
In France, they know how to relax: on public holidays, virtually all city dwellers flee the urban environment to hit…
What If The World's Population Was 11 Billion? Ask Your Questions Now
Our global population of 7 billion has been steadily expanding and it's only going to grow faster as the century…
Epidemics Are Not Natural
Now that Ebola is ravaging parts of West Africa, a nasty meme is once again rearing its ugly head — the suggestion…
Why Sprawling LA Could Be Denser Than NYC in a Decade
By 2025, the biggest cities in the world will not only be bigger, but exceptionally denser. According to a new study,…
The World's Population Is Unlikely To Stabilize This Century
Contrary to previous projections, it now appears that the world's population is unlikely to stop growing this…
Only 1 in 4 Nevada residents were born there, the lowest of any state
Americans who can claim themselves "born-and-raised" are far more rare in some parts of the country. While most…
Watch As The U.S. Population Goes West Over The Last 220 Years
A lot has changed in the U.S. over the course of the last 220 years, but one thing has remained the same: The steady…