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Nigeria must prioritise investment in education, health and infrastructure to harness the opportunities of its huge population.

Most of the problems confronting the world come down to population growth. But where women are given the choice, they limit the number of children they have.

The mass movement of people across the world is nothing new, but migration today is so global and so unrelenting that it may well be the great humanitarian issue of our time.

For decades it seemed as if nothing could change the trajectory of population growth. But a huge change is looming.

It is easy for people in the industrialised world to blame population growth elsewhere for environmental damage. But increased consumption is just as important – if more confronting.

If we want a liveable future for our grandchildren is it ethical to reduce the number of people being born into that world?

Worries about overpopulation aren’t being felt everywhere.

Even in dire circumstances, people and communities have choices about how best they can adjust, collaborate and forge new social structures.

Arguments about population growth are unhelpful, distracting and often racist.

By 2100, China’s population will likely be half its current size. It will also be a lot older, with fewer working-age men and women.