YOU’VE LIKELY HEARD the oft-repeated idea that half the five-year-olds of 2025 will live to be 100. For perspective, it means ...

While the campaigns have had varying degrees ... implemented the "one child" rule—perhaps the best-known population policy in the world—in the 1970s amidst growing concerns over whether ...

Unless we start getting off-world immigrants, every new citizen to one country is a population loss to another. Even while population growth in the world as a whole slows down and eventually ...

As the theme of this year’s World Population Day reminds us, investing in data collection is important to understanding problems, tailoring solutions, and driving progress. So is finance.

1 in Educated population Japan, one of the world’s most literate and technically advanced nations, is an East Asian country made up of four main islands. While most of Japan is covered by ...

The country's shrinking population is a grim omen for the rest of the world China's population is shrinking. While the massive country is still home to 1.4 billion people — nearly one out of ...

While people are living longer ... being narrowly overtaken by India as the world’s most populous nation the following year. A rapidly aging population, declining workforce, lack of consumer ...

The 0.9% increase in 2024 was a slight slowdown from last year, when the world population grew by 75 million ... there were more births than deaths while Scotland and Wales had more deaths than ...

While people are living longer ... being narrowly overtaken by India as the world’s most populous nation in the same year. A rapidly aging population, declining workforce, lack of consumer ...