Singapore's government said that its fertility rate has fallen to a record low. It's one of many industrialized countries trying to encourage its people to have more babies. Last week Singapore's ...

The collapse in birth rates that began in post-war Europe has, in the decades since, spread to every single corner of the globe. Many nations are already feeling this death spiral, filling more ...

A new model has predicted that Earth's population is likely to decrease in all scenarios across the next century and will peak nowhere near the 11 billion previously forecast. When you purchase ...

Population control is out, and #8BillionStrong is in. So says the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the arm of the UN dedicated to global population policy, and notorious for its extremist ...

Fertility rates around the world are dropping quicker than expected, putting the world on track to see a population decline before the end of the century, according to a report from the United Nations ...

Last week Singapore's government published a statistic that underscores a growing challenge in the country. The average number of children being born there has fallen to a record low. And, in fact, ...

The world reached two important milestones toward the end of last year. First, the human population passed eight billion in November, a whopping increase of one billion people since 2011. Then, in ...

UNITED NATIONS - The world's population - already more than double what it was in 1950 - is projected to boom by another 3 billion in the next half-century, with Africa and Asia dwarfing Europe, even ...

The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major shift from a decade ago, a new report by the United ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . "Many of today's most-respected thinkers, from Stephen Hawking to David Attenborough, argue that our efforts to fight climate change and other ...

Just before Christmas, federal health officials confirmed life expectancy in America had dropped for a nearly unprecedented second year in a row – down to 76 years. While countries all over the world ...