Many economists and business leaders are raising alarms about falling birthrates. But advocates for lower human populations say a less crowded world will be happier and more sustainable.

Most estimates place Earth’s human population at around 8.2 billion, but Josias Láng-Ritter—a postdoctoral researcher at ...

Here are five maps and charts to help you understand New York City and how the vote works. New York City is the most populous ...

The decline in China's population last year is likely to have exceeded the historic fall recorded in 2022, but the overall downward trend in the next three decades will be mild, a senior demographer ...

An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...

This year, for the first time in nearly a century, more foreign-born people will likely leave the United States than will ...

One town in Ulster County has more than half its population made up of young adults, while another has nearly half of its ...

Population growth slowed in all of Aotearoa New Zealand's 16 regions in the year ended June 2025, according to provisional estimates released by Stats ...

People are having fewer children worldwide, but the trend is particularly marked in countries like China and less so in ...

Google is expanding its AI features within Google Earth. It’s now easier to chat with Google Earth AI models, introduced in ...

Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than 'residential segregation' in 1850s Manchester, ...

Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than ‘residential segregation’ in 1850s Manchester, undermining key assumptions about the Industrial Revolution. Historians ...