Demographer Jennifer Sciubba joins WIRED to answer the internet's questions about population and demographics. What is demography? What perspective can demographics provide about populations and ...

The United States could see its population decline in 2025 for the first time in history, driven by falling immigration and ...

A primary risk, as a population ages, is under-investment in children. As children make up an increasing share of the ...

10 July 2024 - Two years ago, our world marked the milestone of 8 billion people living on this planet. What has happened since then? How many lives are expected to see the light of day? Where do ...

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 ...

Japan’s population is shrinking faster than ever, with nearly a million more deaths than births in 2024 – the steepest decline since records began in 1968. New figures released by the Ministry of ...

Many who were in college in the 1960s and 1970s read “The Population Bomb” by Stanford Professors Paul and Anne Ehrlich. The ...

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. By every available measure, California’s population is growing again, albeit modestly. The dark years following the ...

A shrinking population will have profound consequences. It will turn expectations about everything from housing to greenhouse-gas emissions upside down. A contracting labour force and a dwindling ...

Population bottlenecks caused by stark population loss due to illness or habitat destruction caused mammals' disease immunity ...