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There is three kind of karma (karams)

1) The actions that we are currently.
2) The actions we did previously but we have not suffered the consequences of those karma yet.
3) The actions that we did previously and we have been ordained by Vaheguru to suffer those in this life.

On the one hand, the Gurus hold that whatever happens in the world is under Divine dispensation and that His will is supreme.

karan karavan ape ap
sada sada Nanak hari jap
"He is the cause and sole author, Nanak says repeat God's name again and again."
Guru Arjan - Gauri.

It would thus appear that the doer of the act and the prompter, or inspirer, of the act is one and the same - God. God does what He wills Humans act as He wills.

marai rakhai ekai ap
manukh kai kichh nahi hath
Guru Arjan - Gauri.

There is some serious over-thinking going on here.

Trying to understand Waheguru through our thoughts is not possible. Our processor can't handle it. It will blow a circuit but it will never be able to understand how infinite and perfect Waheguru is. We aren't perfect and so we can't understand things like perfection and infinity.

Gurbani says:
ਕਰਤੇ ਕੀ ਮਿਤਿ ਕਰਤਾ ਜਾਣੈ ਕੈ ਜਾਣੈ ਗੁਰੁ ਸੂਰਾ ॥੩॥
"About the extent or play of the creator Waheguru, only the creator Waheguru knows, or the valiant Guru knows."

Sometimes, it appears to us that people doing illegal and antisocial acts enjoy their life and they are not punished or controlled by God. Actually such persons receive their punishment without other people knowing it. Our knowledge is limited to the legal methods of punishment, being put in jail, or being fined by a judge. The methods of God for rewards and punishment are different. They are all automatic and built in nature and God's Divine System.

The statement that everything is in God's hands is not understood properly; this needs some detailed explanation.

In Sikhi, when looking at populations, we aren't looking at human population but population of souls.

Can anyone say with certainty that the population of souls is increasing?

If we look at just this earth, the number of plant species and animal species are decreasing. Perhaps they are being reborn as humans. Not just that, Sikhs don't consider just this Earth to be part of God's creation we are told by Guru Nanak Sahib Ji of countless planets and even universes. Who is to say that those lives aren't being reborn here?

Sach Khand ("Realm of Truth") is the Sikh concept of Liberation from the cycle of birth and rebirth. It is achieved by the Guru's Grace and through meditation and Simran, remembering the Divine. There are two understandings of Sach Khand in accordance to Gurbani. The first is Sach Khand as a spiritual state of being liberated whilst alive through immersing oneself in the Divine Truth and becoming inseparable to the Truth (i.e. God's Light). The second is Sach Khand as a spiritual realm or spiritual place where the blessed souls go after death.

According to Sikhism this question is outside the domain of religion. To know it is not the religious goal of our life as stated earlier. Gurmat wants us to marvel by thinking of the Creator and the creation, and not bother about the process of creation.

The statement that everything is in God's hands is not understood properly; this needs some detailed explanation.

(i) The existence of evil is a Western thought. Sikhism does not agree with this thought. According to the Bible, God created Adam. Later, from Adam's rib, God created Eve to be Adam's companion. Satan (Evil) misguided them to eat the forbidden fruit. Adam thus became a sinner for disobeying God and was then thrown out of Heaven. We, all humans, being Adam's children, are born sinners and, therefore, we all will go to Hell.