The economic impact of changes in population growth rates and age structure can dramatically shift as countries transition from high to low rates of mortality and fertility. Initially, mortality ...

In early 2023, India surpassed China as the most populous country in the world with the latter having 850,000 fewer people by the end of 2022—marking the country’s first population decline since ...

Earlier this fall, the Met Council’s demographic office released its latest population growth projections, which take regional trends and population growth out to the year 2050 in as specific a way as ...

Sustained economic growth is a goal for many countries as it helps create jobs, reduce poverty, foster innovation, and generate resources for public services. A new book synthesizes a decade of ...

John Wilmoth is Director, Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). Clare Menozzi, Lina Bassarsky and Danan Gu are Population Officers, UN DESA.

The Columbus area gained more than 18,000 residents in the year ending last July, the biggest gain since before the COVID pandemic, according to the latest Census estimates. But despite some ...

The United States Census Bureau has released a list of cities with the highest population growth. The agency tracked population growth from July 2023 to July 2024, and found that cities across the ...

The global population ballooned by about 1.7 billion people between 2000 and 2020. But growth was uneven around the world and, in some places, immigration played a key role. In 14 countries and ...

Thousands of people moved to rural America last year, causing the fourth year of continual growth in rural areas, according to a Daily Yonder analysis of 2024 Census estimates. Nonmetropolitan, or ...

Counting millions of people is never an easy task, but according to the United Nations, India now has more people than China, an epochal shift in global demographics that happened sometime in late ...