Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

When 2020 census results were released more than three years ago, they showed a 276% boom in the number of people classified ...

After a report from The Times, officials have called for an external review into delayed evacuation alerts in western ...

Once known for its efforts to curtail population growth, China is now facing a demographic crisis that threatens its economy ...

Major economies are heading toward a "population collapse" by 2100 because of falling fertility rates, new research has found. A report by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) on Wednesday, warns the ...

As of January 2022, nearly 11 million immigrants lived in the U.S. without legal immigration status, according to the ...

China is one of the most populous countries in the world, surpassed only by India. By the end of 2023, China boasted a population of about 1.4 billion people. Although this marked the country's second ...

The Atlantic humpback dolphin (Sousa teuszii) is among the poorest understood oceanic mammals. There is a lack of historical ...

President Donald Trump littered a Wednesday interview on Fox News with many of the same false claims he made earlier in his ...

After more than a year of protests in a small north Alabama city over the fatal police shooting of a Black man outside his home, a redacted and highly anticipated third-party investigation found that ...

Estimating the population of Ancient Greece is a complex task due to the lack of accurate historical records and the different time periods.