The country’s only known population, which draws thousands of tourists to the Simien Mountains each year, is down to 306 individuals.

The initiative, a collaboration between Madison and the UW-Madison Applied Population Lab, just released its 2024 findings.

The world’s longest river has become the center of a tense geopolitical struggle in Africa. At the heart of this conflict ...

This background note provides more detail on the key findings for the health sector from the forthcoming World Bank 2025 ...

Every year on July 11th, the global community observes World Population Day, a United Nations initiative established in 1989 to draw attention to the urgency and importance of population issues. As we ...

Which local areas are seeing the fastest increases in population? The City of London is the area projected to have the fastest growth, with a projected population increase of 48.6% from mid-2022 to ...

The U.S. Census just released population numbers for every Massachusetts city and town. A map shows which grew and which shrank.

Ethiopia’s quest for access to the Red Sea has become a hotly debated topic on social media. Posts with a map of the Red Sea region in the Horn of Africa claim that Eritrea's port of Assab is ...

For four years or so, the population of Lalibela town is suffering from the effects of conflicts in the northern part of Ethiopia. There has been continuous power interruption. Electricity is ...

A moderately strong, 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck in Ethiopia on Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 9:53 p.m. East Africa time about 28 miles ...

Could future maps give us a glimpse of what the world's population will look like in 2100? Experts are drawing up maps which can be used to predict the impact of climate change on the ...

A series of earthquakes with their epicenter in the Awash Fentale area have displaced close to 10,000 residents in the North Shewa Zone of the Amhara region, which borders the Afar region.