Early 20th-century France faced an existential threat: Its citizens weren’t having enough babies. In 1900, the average French woman gave birth to three children throughout her lifetime while over the ...

Social media users are claiming that billionaire tech titan Bill Gates is part of a conspiracy to depopulate the Earth. The clip then zooms into a quote next to the headline from Gates, whom the paper ...

Peter Walker, a professor of geography and environmental studies at the University of Oregon, joins us to talk about what’s driving global population trends, and why some regions are shrinking and ...

The global economic system developed in an era of rapid population growth. With aging populations and people deciding to have smaller families, economists are raising concerns about future prosperity.

Social media posts claiming the world’s population can fit into a 50.8-mile x 50.8-mile square are missing context, according to experts who spoke to Reuters. Such posts have gone viral, having fed ...

Readers discuss a guest essay that argued that we should be. To the Editor: Re “Progressives Should Care About Population Decline, Too,” by Victor Kumar (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 6): Dr. Kumar argues ...

We know that we live in an ever-changing world, but one thing we often overlook is demographic change. Whether the world's population is growing... The Bomb That Didn't Explode: Why Our Fears About ...

“If PEOPLE DON’T have more children, civilization is going to crumble,” proclaimed Elon Musk from a Tesla factory late last year. As usual, he was treated as an oracle. Deepening the effect, he added, ...

This fact sheet is based on Pew Research Center tabulations of microdata from the Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey (ACS), provided through IPUMS from the University of Minnesota. All ...

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, ...

The National Catholic Register recently published an editorial, “Separate the Wheat From the Chaff in US Foreign Aid,” attempting to balance support for President Donald Trump’s cuts to “rank ...

Which are you more worried about, population growth or population decline? Or do you prefer to freak out about both at the same time? What the researchers from Norway found in their pollen record is ...