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 ...

Researchers formulated a mathematical equation that unifies 12,000 years of human population growth and points to an alarming ...

In 2025, population growth rates fell in 48 states as international migration declined nationwide. The number of states with populations that grew more slowly than their long-term trends tripled to 30 ...

Businesspeople and politicians seem to be afraid that population reduction will be accompanied by economic recession. In this paper we examine the experience of some countries of various sizes in ...

The world’s population surpassed 8 billion in 2023, an increase of 1 billion in just over one decade. This benchmark signals the profound importance of the anthropogenic effects of an increasing human ...

The United States Census Bureau has released a list of cities with the highest population growth. The agency tracked population growth from July 2023 to July 2024, and found that cities across the ...

Minnesota’s population has grown in three ways: naturally via more births than deaths, people moving here from other states and international migration. Demographers point out, however, that in as few ...