The global human population has been climbing for the past two centuries. But what is normal for all of us alive today — growing up while the world is growing rapidly — may be a blip in human history.

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 ...

In 1994, widespread concern over population growth brought world leaders together at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. Today, however, ...

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This report describes the world’s religious makeup in 2020 and how it changed from 2010. We focus on seven categories: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, people who belong to other ...

One in four people globally live in a country whose population has already peaked in size. 11 July 2024 - According to the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results published today, it is ...

China’s population has fallen after decades of sky-high growth. This major shift in the world’s most populous country would be a big deal by itself, but China’s hardly alone in its declining numbers: ...

India’s population has more than tripled in the six decades following Partition, from 361 million (36.1 crore) people in the 1951 census to more than 1.2 billion (120 crore) in 2011. As of 2020, India ...

Discover how the employment-to-population ratio reveals labor market health by comparing employed individuals to the working-age population, with fewer fluctuations than unemployment rates.

The United Nations has officially declared November 15, 2022 as the “Day of Eight Billion” — the day the Earth reached a population of eight billion inhabitants. Revealing that the last jump from ...

83-year-old pop., 2021 | People born in 1938 still alive today: 42.4% – Births in 1938: 2,496,000 – U.S. population, 1938: 129,824,939 (Wikimedia Commons) 82-year ...

Cities' population densities vary significantly across the country. Jurisdictions with the highest population densities tend to be concentrated in northern regions, particularly the New York ...