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 ...

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The U.S. population will age and continue to see low growth in 2025, three experts have told Newsweek. Population decline is an issue for many countries around the world, especially in Europe, and, ...

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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 ...

Kikandi Lukambo has reinvented himself many times in his life. After war forced him, his parents and siblings to flee their home in the Congo, he became a tailor, catering to the fashionable ladies of ...

The United States population is projected to grow more slowly than previously anticipated over the next three decades, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In its latest forecast, the ...

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 ...

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Global fertility rates have been falling for decades and are reaching historically low levels. While the human population now exceeds 8 billion and may top 10 billion by 2050, the momentum of growth ...