Are California and Colorado at the top of the list of states losing population as more people leave than move there? No, that ...

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.

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.

China’s population has fallen after decades of sky-high growth. This major shift in the world’s most populous country would be a big deal by itself, but China’s hardly alone in its declining numbers: ...

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 ...

People aged 65 or older now account for more than 21 percent of Korea’s population, officially marking the onset of a ...

Discover the significance of the working-age population, typically aged 15-64, in shaping economic outcomes and employment trends. Learn how demographics affect economies.

Millions of people in Mexico don't have access to clean water. Extreme heat and drought brought on by climate change are partly to blame, but so is the aging infrastructure and years of mismanaging ...

Discover how the employment-to-population ratio reveals labor market health by comparing employed individuals to the working-age population, with fewer fluctuations than unemployment rates.

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 ...

“If PEOPLE DON’T have more children, civilization is going to crumble,” proclaimed Elon Musk from a Tesla factory late last year. As usual, he was treated as an oracle. Deepening the effect, he added, ...

This story appears in the January 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day in Delft in the fall of 1677, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, a cloth merchant who is said to have been the long-haired ...