The world faces an unprecedented demographic shift that has governments and experts scrambling for solutions. While global population reached 8 billion people in November 2022, the UN's 2024 ...

The world's population is still growing, yet beneath these global statistics lies a different reality for dozens of countries. While regions like sub-Saharan Africa face booming populations, several ...

A survey of 143 low-, middle-, and high-income countries has revealed which ones are most prepared to support the world’s rapidly aging population in areas like well-being, equity, and security – and ...

There is one birth every 9 seconds and one death every 11 seconds. As of July 1, 2025, the world population stands at an estimated 8.12 billion people, with a new person added approximately every 16 ...

The new research reveals that small population sizes and random birth patterns raise the fertility threshold needed to avoid extinction. (Rafael A.S. Martins/Unsplash via Courthouse News) (CN) — With ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. About 1 in 4 people in the world—1.9 billion people—are ...

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Moldova, Croatia and Montenegro are the 10 European countries with the lowest population growth rates. This refers to the average annual ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...