The U.S. has seen a decline in birth rates since the Great Recession as society changes its tune on parenthood and family ...

Depopulation — unremitting, long-term population decline — promises to be the 21st century’s most important demographic trend. After centuries of seemingly unstoppable increase, world population is on ...

Around the world, birth rates are falling and populations are shrinking. This talk explores what human population decline ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The UN estimates that the world’s population will top out at 10.3 billion by 2080 before it enters a slow descent, ending 100 million lower by 2100.

When discussing the decline in global fertility rates, I’ll often mischievously toss in this quote from Lady Macbeth, “Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done is done.” My ...

China introduced a 13% tax on contraceptives while exempting childcare services as the global superpower battles sustained ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

A declining population can wreak havoc on a country whose various social programs are based on growing numbers of citizens. For instance, the Social Security system in the U.S., and similar ones in ...

Disillusioned with the revolution after 68 years of US sanctions and a shattered economy, one in four Cubans have left in four years. Can the regime, and country, survive the engulfing ‘polycrisis’?