A groundbreaking study published in The Lancet has sent shockwaves through the global community, revealing that the world’s ...

The world faces an unprecedented demographic shift that has governments and experts scrambling for solutions. While global population reached 8 billion people in November 2022, the UN's 2024 ...

China's population fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 as the birthrate plunged to a record low, official data showed ...

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with economist and demographer Dean Spears about why he thinks depopulation isn't the answer to the global climate crisis. For many young people thinking about starting a ...

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 ...

France hit with demographic crisis as deaths outnumber births for first time since WWII.According to CNN, official figures ...

China’s urban population surpassed 943m in 2024, say official statistics, an increase of 100m in just seven years. The ...

The efforts have largely failed. For the fourth year in a row, China reported more deaths than births in 2025 as its birth ...

For many young people thinking about starting a family, worries about climate change or depletion of the Earth's natural resources are often a reason for thinking twice, like Annie Platt and Ryan ...