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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Census Bureau has projected that the nation's population will hit 341,145,670 at midnight on New Year's Day. It marks an increase of over 2.6 million people (0.78%) from January 1, 2024, and ...

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 ...

Major economies are heading toward a "population collapse" by 2100 because of falling fertility rates, new research has found. A report by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) on Wednesday, warns the ...

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 ...

Allow me to introduce the next group of people who will be top 1 percenters. They may not be rich in income. Or wealth. But they will definitely be rich in years. It will be the men and women (mostly ...

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 ...