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

Small cities in big Texas metro areas are the fastest-growing in the U.S. The Census Bureau reported Thursday that Celina, Princeton, Melissa and Anna were at the top of the list from mid-2024 to mid-...

Midsized cities in the U.S. saw their population remain steady as the national growth rate slowed, according to a Thursday release from the U.S. Census Bureau.  Smaller cities outside of high-traff…

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

Beijing has been trying hard to encourage more young people to marry and have children.

China's population continues to shrink. Government statistics released on Monday revealed the population fell for the fourth straight year to 1.4 billion.

The number of births fell to the lowest level in decades, while the country’s population shrank for a fourth consecutive year.

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 ...

This research reveals that widely used global population data heavily underestimate rural population. If not carefully considered, these errors in the data can cause inequitable access to resources an...

Is our little blue marble of a planet actually a lot more crowded than we thought? A new study suggests we've been significantly undercounting populations in rural areas, because of the grid-based met...

A new way of estimating rural populations has found that we may be undercounting people who live in these areas, potentially inflating the global population beyond the official count of 8.2 billion – ...

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...

White-collar workers tend to go where they think the jobs are.

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

Two people died for every one born in the super-aged society last year.

The number of newborns in Japan in 2024 dropped to 7,20,988, a five per cent from the previous year. This is the ninth consecutive year that this figure has fallen and the lowest since 1899, sparking ...

Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used to change diapers or prevent bedsores in the elderly.

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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.

This chart shows the countries with the biggest decrease in population between 2022 and 2023.

It's the babies' fault!

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.

We have reflected long and hard on many subjects, but no one really paid attention to population aging until about the 1930s.

By 2040, about one in five Californians will be 65 or older as working age population stays the same. Are we as a state ready for that?

In New England, pandemic-era early retirements and an aging population have left businesses struggling to find workers.

Developers are not responding to heightened demand when it comes to senior housing. Many retirees are set to face wait lists to get into assisted living or other retirement communities.

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.

Only 6.1 million Chinese couples tied the knot in 2024, the lowest total since 1980, according to official data.

More than 6.1 million couples registered for marriage last year, down from 7.68 million a year earlier, figures from the Ministry of Civil Affairs showed.

Numbers of marriages in China dropped dramatically in 2024. The continuing decline in marriages likely signals further declines in birth rates, intensifying China's demographic headwinds.

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.

The UK’s population is set to hit 72.5 million by mid-2032, according to official projections, an upward revision of more than 100,000 people that will pile pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to ...

Projections suggest the UK population could grow by almost five million over the next decade.

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

The Office for National Statistics published estimates on Tuesday.

The population boom will be almost entirely driven by net migration.