In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world’s major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Moreover, birth rates are notoriously hard to change, and efforts to do so often ...

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 ...

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 ...

The departure of Michigan’s first chief growth officer two years brings a coda to a very loud discussion of the state’s declining population, and brings a message that marketing, for all its powers, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio—Cuyahoga County continues to see year-over-year population loss, according to new estimates for 2023 released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. However, that is not the case for ...

Minnesota’s population has grown in three ways: naturally via more births than deaths, people moving here from other states and international migration. Demographers point out, however, that in as few ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Bay Area is growing again. Every county in the region saw an increase in population last year, a resounding reversal after a drop in population at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic that ...