More than a billion people live in the country, but how does a country like the United States compare?We spoke to researchers from the University of Southern California and the University in Beijing, China, to figure out how the population is distributed across the globe.We asked the researchers to measure people’s average age, gender, race, […]
The number of people living in the United States has been increasing steadily for decades.In the last decade, however, we have seen a dramatic shift in the population, especially among the young.According to the most recent U.S. Census data, the number of the aged population has grown from 5.2 million in 1980 to 5.9 million […]
Washington, DC – US census data showed that the number of people living in the country’s capital city of Washington grew by 6.3% in 2016, but it also showed that more people are moving to smaller and cheaper places.The city of Los Angeles was the next-biggest gainer with a 1.8% growth, followed by San Francisco […]
Costa Rica, Mexico and Guatemala are among the top five countries with the highest reported crime rates, according to a new report.The report, which examined data from 2014, found that nearly half of the countries with high crime rates had populations of fewer than 5 million.The report also found that Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and […]