The world's population is expected to peak at 10.3 billion in 2084 and then decline to 10.2 billion through the end of the ...

China's leadership is eager to reverse the trend, as the soaring number of elderly citizens is expected to increase the burden on families and strain the country's social welfare systems, sapping ...

For years, the official estimate of Earth’s population has hovered around 8.2 billion. However, a new study suggests that the actual number of people living on our planet could be much higher ...

Violent disorder on the streets. Mass starvation. War over scarce resources. Those were some of the potential consequences of ...

But these pronatalist policy measures risk repeating history’s mistakes — substituting one form of reproductive coercion ...

The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Monday. The 0.9% ...

“To the extent you think the ‘World Population Prospects’ are wrong, that is the extent to which you are saying, ‘This time is different,’” Lyman Stone, a Ph.D. student and birth-rate ...