While Christians remained the world’s largest religious group at the end of the decade that ended in 2020, Christianity’s growth did not keep up with global population increase. But Islam — the ...

Christians are the world’s largest religious group, and they are a majority in every region except the Asia-Pacific and Middle East-North Africa regions. But they are shrinking as a share of the ...

In 2022, the world’s population reached 8 billion - a major milestone in human development. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres noted, “The milestone is an occasion to celebrate diversity and ...

The digital revolution was only just beginning, when the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was adopted in 1994. We spoke with Yumiko Kamiya in UN ...