According to data compiled from World Population Review, the average global population density stands at about 14.7 people ...

Population density is the number of people per unit of area. According to Our World in Data, the global average is 62 people per km² (0.38 mi²), but this varies by region. Islands often have higher ...

Big cities with lots of people usually garner images of a fast paced life, where the hustle and bustle of the city is met, and at least tolerated, by those who live there. They live for the "rush" of ...

There are 57.5 million square miles of land on Earth, yet 95% of the planet’s human population inhabits only 10% of that land, according to the World Bank’s 2009 World Development Report. To identify ...

The world population isn’t exploding. That’s a key idea I learned from National Geographic‘s awesome article on what the world could look like when it hits 7 billion people later this year in 2011.