Global population growth has slowed to historic lows in recent years. The number of people on Earth expanded by just 0.8% in 2022, the smallest increase since at least 1960, the earliest year of ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine has given a fresh impetus to the European Union's drive to admit more countries, the bloc's chairman said on Monday, adding he hoped the ...

Demographic trends often have far-reaching economic and social consequences. Birth rates are no exception, and in much of the world, they have been falling for decades. As recently as in the mid-1960s ...

In this piece, we will take a look at the 20 countries with the highest consumer spending in the world. If you want to skip our overview of how spending today is vastly different from conditions ...

In this article, we take a look at 35 countries with the lowest poverty rate in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of poverty reduction, you can directly go to 10 Countries ...

China’s per capita income stood at $12,720 as of 2022, according to the World Bank. President Xi Jinping ’s target is to make China a “ medium-developed country ” by 2035—a goal that is also not ...

In recent years, American politicians have been seeking to challenge China’s status as a developing country Despite building a “moderately prosperous society”, the Chinese economy is still not ...

The World Happiness Report finds Finland is the happiest country worldwide for the seventh year in a row. While the top 10 remains largely unchanged, the United States dropped from ...

In this article, we will look into the 20 countries that produce the most pollution in the world. If you want to skip our detailed analysis, you can go directly to the 5 Countries That Produce the ...

Economic and financial data including Macao SAR GDP growth, GDP per capita and more, plus trade and finance sector data.

Sceptics point out that this high growth will not be sustainable since it is occurring on the back of massive government infrastructure investment, not yet followed by a commensurate surge in private ...

The Financial Times had earlier revealed that Russian ports are being used by sanctioned North Korean tankers to collect tens of thousands of barrels of oil and petroleum products, in apparent payment ...