A groundbreaking study published in The Lancet has sent shockwaves through the global community, revealing that the world’s population is on the brink of a historic decline. For the first time in 700 ...

Ten countries are facing population decline and demographic pressures that could reshape the future. Aging trends and ...

It’s often assumed that lower birthrates could help slow climate change and A.I. disruption. The reality is more complex.

Depopulation — unremitting, long-term population decline — promises to be the 21st century’s most important demographic trend. After centuries of seemingly unstoppable increase, world population is on ...

The consistency of the global pattern shows how hard these trend lines are to budge. Several nations have preceded the U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many who were in college in the 1960s and 1970s read "The Population Bomb" by Stanford Professors Paul and Anne Ehrlich. The book ...

Immigration crackdowns may be slowing U.S. population growth and reshaping the economy, says Luke Pardue, policy director at the Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group.

Prophets of doom in the last century frantically warned the whole world about the so-called population bomb or the threat of overpopulation.

“The slowdown in U.S. population growth is largely due to a historic decline in net international migration, which dropped ...