State demographers worry that they may be overestimating future gains as international migration dries up quickly.

STORY: “This is my fourth child. I was hoping for a boy but it didn't happen. I have a baby girl." Chandani Devi tries to fight back tears in a hospital ward as her newborn girl lies next to her. The ...

The Sea Women of Melanesia Rep, Lorie Pipiga said that one of the biggest problems facing coastal communities today is the ...

On a special episode (first released on August 1, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Across the globe, populations are in precipitous decline. People are simply not having children at the fertility rate ...

Franklin County's strong population and economic growth have made it the largest county in Ohio, with an estimated 1.33 million residents. While that growth has brought problems — housing shortages, ...

ST. LOUIS — A growing number of civic and business groups are highlighting the St. Louis metropolitan area’s stagnant population as an urgent problem, and they’re pushing the region’s planning ...

The United States has enjoyed some level of population growth virtually every year for more than a century. But that doesn't ...

Birth rates have dropped faster than life expectancy has increased, causing slower population growth around the world. Forecasts from the United Nations predict that world population will actually ...

LANSING — Michigan should create a pre-K-14 system that includes two additional years of free education and set a new “education guarantee” standard, which would be similar to a high graduation ...

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don’t know what will happen with future populations. However, the next 20 years are ...

Pratima Kumari, a government health worker in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, sets off on her mini scooter every morning, crisscrossing vast corn fields and pineapple orchards to visit villages and ...