Societies do collapse, sometimes suddenly. Nevertheless, prophets of doom might keep in mind that their darkest predictions have been, on the whole, a little premature. In 1968, Paul Ehrlich, a ...

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 ...

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. We are living in an age of mass migration. Millions of people from the ...

Dr. Geruso and Dr. Spears are economists and the authors of the forthcoming book “After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People.” We’ve all heard that human overpopulation is a crisis ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

According to Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the father of at least a dozen children, the greatest potential risk to the future of civilisation is population collapse. Taking a very long-term ...

Spain's birth rate has gone up for the first time in a decade, and it's largely thanks to immigration, several population experts have said. Countries all over the world are facing population crises ...

Jews are the smallest religious group analyzed separately in this report, accounting for 0.2% of the global population. Most Jews live either in North America (primarily in the United States) or in ...