Global population data undercounts rural communities by up to 84%, impacting resource allocation and planning.

PORTLAND, US, Mar 4 2025 (IPS) - As the world’s population increased five-fold since the start of the 20th century, the changes in the geographic distribution of the billions of people across the ...

The colonieshighlighted in red represent those with available population size estimates. Colonies marked in teal areadditional locations. The inset displays the indexof global abundance of emperor ...

As the first of its kind, the map serves as a practical ... in an article titled "Understanding the Global Distribution of ...

Globally, more than 4 billion people live in urban areas. This is projected to increase to more than 7 billion by 2050. Urbanisation rates are increasing rapidly in developing countries as people ...

and by 2050 about 66 per cent of the world population will be living in cities. These megatrends have far-reaching implications. They affect economic development, employment, income distribution ...

The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights, estimates that the next 30 years will see the global population add an extra 2 billion people to today's figure of 7.7 billion, and, by the end of ...

In their study, the Aalto University researchers compared the five most widely used global population datasets—maps that divide the planet into evenly spaced, high-resolution grid cells with ...