The economic impact of changes in population growth rates and age structure can dramatically shift as countries transition from high to low rates of mortality and fertility. Initially, mortality ...

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 ...

Source: BlacknoseDace/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 It seems we are surrounded by a generation of singles. Therapy sessions, workshops, and the psychology literature are fixated on the ultimate ...

The size of the average family may shrink significantly in the coming decades, scientists have forecast. While the average 65-year-old woman in 1950 had an average of 41 relatives still alive, a woman ...

Changes in the demographic makeup of populations are a significant factor contributing to the rise of singledom. In the wake of what researchers call the second demographic transition, fewer people ...

John Wilmoth is Director, Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). Clare Menozzi, Lina Bassarsky and Danan Gu are Population Officers, UN DESA.

On November 15, the world population officially surpassed 8 billion people, according to United Nations estimates. The milestone was reached just 12 years after the world marked 7 billion people, and ...

China’s population of 1.4 billion people is the largest in the world, right? Not anymore. In 2023 India surpassed China as the most populous country. China’s population began shrinking in 2022, and ...

Uruguay's National Institute of Statistics (INE) released a report last week showing the country's dwindling birth rate, the socio-economic and cultural reasons behind it, and warning of the long-term ...

The American economy is booming and robust. Just look at the chart below, which shows that the overall unemployment rate — the share of people within the labor force who are without work but are ...