Earth's population reached a new record in November 2022 when it became home to 8 billion people. The United Nations has predicted that by 2037, Earth's population will have reached 9 billion people.

It can be hard to imagine how many people live in the world when we all exist in our various smaller communities. Many of us know the general population across the seven continents is around 7 billion ...

India is now the world's most populous nation with 1.486 billion people, passing China in April according to projections by the United Nations. And it's still growing. The sheer numbers might bring to ...

The global human population has been climbing for the past two centuries. But what is normal for all of us alive today — growing up while the world is growing rapidly — may be a blip in human history.

Your browser does not support the video element. Your browser does not support the video element. The world has seen a population boom over the past few decades. The ...

The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan population that’s spread throughout Eurasia.

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

In 1970, a woman in Mexico might have expected to have seven children, on average. By 2014, that figure had fallen to around two. As of 2023, it was just 1.6. That means that the population is no ...

As the country spirals into a demographic disaster, Ukrainian authorities face a quandary: who will be left to pick up the ...

83-year-old pop., 2021 | People born in 1938 still alive today: 42.4% – Births in 1938: 2,496,000 – U.S. population, 1938: 129,824,939 (Wikimedia Commons) 82-year ...