In 1994, widespread concern over population growth brought world leaders together at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. Today, however, ...

China’s population of 1.4 billion people is the largest in the world, right? Not anymore. In 2023 India surpassed China as the most populous country. China’s population began shrinking in 2022, and ...

AS BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS go, it was momentous. On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman. That is below the replacement rate—at ...

Greece's abandoned "ghost" towns and villages offer an eerie glimpse into the future of a country, whose prime minister has warned of "existential" population collapse. Years of decreasing births, ...

Central Asia’s population is projected to exceed 114 million by 2050, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The region is moving in a different direction at a time when Europe and ...