Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don't ...

At the time of writing, there were an estimated 8,123,518,311 living humans on Earth – roughly the most there has ever been. But as fertility and birth rates continue to freefall, the numerical peak ...

One in four people globally live in a country whose population has already peaked in size. 11 July 2024 - According to the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results published today, it is ...

The world population is predicted to peak at about 10.3 billion people in the 2080s, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations. The agency's 2024 World Population Prospects study ...

Eight billion. That’s the number of humans estimated to be alive on Earth. On November 15, the global population reached this landmark, according to a projection from the United Nations. In addition ...

We seem fascinated by generations, using them to evoke shared experiences and to push us apart. Demography, the science of population change, defines a cohort as a group of people born at roughly the ...

Boomers and Zoomers meet, but there aren't enough Zoomers to replace the Boomers. The entire rich world had a baby boom after the Second World War. But American Boomers did something that most other ...

Business leaders should care about population growth, but it’s not as simple as focusing on the total gain or decline. Overall population growth in the United States crept up very slowly last year, ...

For the first time in more than a decade, Michigan lost population in an annual census estimate, the latest sign of what experts say could lead to economic problems for the state down the line. The ...