The collapse in birth rates that began in post-war Europe has, in the decades since, spread to every single corner of the ...

China was until recently the world's most populous nation, accounting for a sixth of the global population. But China, too, ...

The country with the highest population density that also has a population larger than ten million is Rwanda, which has a ...

Many of the world's biggest cities are struggling with overpopulation, pollution, and dwindling resources. Ashish Vaishnav—SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Some 18 months ago, the news broke that ...

The main driver of these changes is human population growth. This is the central finding of our newly published study in the journal Science Advances. Our research suggests that as human population ...

Network equipment riding on balloons, airships, gliders and planes could boost internet access, including in disaster zones, ...

Migration has grown steadily in recent decades, with more than 280 million people (3.6% of the world’s population) now considered migrants because they live outside their country of birth.

The U.N. thinks that the world birth rate is still above replacement level and will remain above replacement level for years. There are reasons to doubt that.

Hispanics are the second-most common race on Staten Island, representing 19.6% of the borough’s population, followed by Asian ...

The researchers used dietary data to estimate global consumption of 15 key micronutrients — calcium, iodine, iron, riboflavin ...

It is also a natural biological phenomenon: The world’s population has tripled in the last 70 years—and will settle into a new dynamic equilibrium as limitations are reached, with an expected ...