Births and immigration are slowing at the same time. The U.S. isn't ready for what that means.

Population growth held steady in midsized cities from 2024 to 2025 as many areas slowed, per Census Bureau Vintage 2025 Subcounty population estimates.

Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam.... Claims to ancient origin and ultimate authority notwithstanding, the world’s five major religions are all of recent vintage compared to the couple ...

Governments, international bodies and researchers rely on global population data for resource allocation and infrastructure planning to disease epidemiology and disaster risk management. In a new stud...

The Seattle metro is among the top 12 where college-educated Americans are moving when they leave their home county.

The number of children born in Japan in 2024 fell from a year earlier to 720,988, marking the ninth consecutive year of record lows, health ministry data showed Thursday. The figure including foreigne...

Iraqi officials have called the population count a milestone and said it will provide essential data for future planning and resource distribution.

In addition to the struggle against Russia, Ukraine faces a more existential battle, its birth rate is plunging and people are leaving the embattled nation in droves.

China’s population already peaked in 2021. For the other most populous countries, which will hit its population peak next?

Video. Despite anti-immigration politicians recently gaining support, France, Germany and Italy would face big population problems in a zero-immigration scenario.

The U.S. is heading toward a demographic cliff. Over the next decade, there will be fewer 18-year-olds available to fill the nation's universities. An analysis of census data projects by 2039, the poo...

What are the most linguistically diverse countries in the world? We look at the top 10 by number of living languages spoken.

Marriages in China dropped by a fifth last year despite manifold efforts by authorities to encourage young couples to wed and have children to boost the country's declining population.

New research into Indigenous population dynamics in the New World of the pre-Columbian Americas is producing some fascinating results, thanks to the deployment of new analytical tools that allow for a

Tokyo continued to be a magnet for people in 2024, with a net influx of around 80,000 nearing the pre-pandemic 2019 level and highlighting the longstanding population concentration in the capital, acc...

Northern Ireland's population is projected to peak at 1.95m before declining, a new report suggests.

Poland recorded only 18,500 births in November 2024, the lowest number since World War Two.

The NEWS project aims to produce the best possible estimates of income and poverty given all available survey and administrative data.

Office of National Statistics projects population will reach 72.5m by mid-2032, with growth driven by migration

The potential future population size of the UK and its constituent countries. These statistics are widely used in planning, including fiscal projections, health, education and pensions.

Spain’s population sees a major shift, with over 22% now of foreign origin. Discover how migration is reshaping the nation’s demographics and future

The UN defines "super-aged societies" as countries where over 20% of the population is aged 65+. See them all in this infographic.

A United Nations report published today has indicated that 55.1% of Jamaica's population or approximately 1.6 million people experienced moderate or severe food insecurity between 2021 and 2023. Only...

New historical research by economist Claudia Goldin finds link between fertility rates, gender roles

President Vladimir Putin openly admits that demographics present Russia with one of its most serious challenges. U.S. experts believe that even without taking into account the effects of the war with ...

Scientific Data - A National Synthetic Populations Dataset for the United States

More babies are being born in hospitals across China in the Year of the Dragon, financial news outlet Yicai reported, an increase which could soften the decline in population in 2024 and bring cheer to policymakers.

"A larger and younger population should create new opportunities for employers and generate greater household demand."

The German population climbed by just 100,000 to 83.6 million in 2024, authorities said on Thursday, amid a 34% drop in net migration. The rise was down from an increase of 340,000 residents over the ...

Unstable federal funding puts at risk the government statistics used to track the U.S. economy and population, officials and data users warn. That's before any cuts by President Trump and Congress.

India is growing in some states, declining in others – but rapidly ageing all over.

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"Putin's government has not evinced visible concern that Russia's population might be cut in half by century's end," an Atlantic Council report says.

Nearly a third of Lebanon’s population is facing acute hunger following the escalation of conflict in late 2024, according to a new report.

The omission of aging populations in agreements at the UN and elsewhere is a missed opportunity to harness societal and economic gains.

Map in English on Sudan and 7 other countries about Protection and Human Rights; published on 20 Jan 2025 by UNHCR

With the world's population of young people likely maxing out last year, the world has officially reached peak child.

Statistics Canada projects the population could grow to just 45.2 million in the next 50 years on the low-end, or 80.8 million on the high-end.

Both the West and China are pouring money into Vietnam, but its plummeting fertility rate might spell trouble for its economic boom.

Compared to commuters, home-based workers are older, more likely to be White and less likely to be in poverty.

Nigeria has been admitted as a partner country to the Brics bloc of developing economies, adding one of Africa's largest economies to the growing alliance of emerging market countries. Brazil, the gro...

There are now an estimated 340.1 million people living in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

A growing number of countries are confronting the dual challenges of population decline and aging. China said Friday that its population fell for a third straight year in 2024.

The world’s second most populous nation that is now facing both an aging population and an emerging shortage of working age people able to support their elders.

This graphic compares each generation's current population share with projections for 2035, emphasizing Gen Beta's growth.

Thailand's population declined by 100,000 in 2024 to 65.95 million, marking a historic demographic shift as annual births fell below 500,000 for the first time since 1949, despite government efforts t...

What’s next for an aging, shrinking world?

In the upcoming election, the Australian House of Representatives will be losing a seat – the result of a quirk in the constitution.