The world has entered what demographers are calling a “Great Inversion,” a profound reversal of the long-standing demographic momentum that powered global population growth for millennia. More than ...

A decline in global population later this century may threaten human progress, or it may lead to better lives. By: David E. Bloom, Michael Kuhn and Klaus Prettner/International Monetary Fund GLOBAL ...

President Donald Trump, a father of five who dubbed himself the “fertilization president” during Women’s History Month, has reportedly begun to float potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth ...

A new UN report links falling fertility rates to limited ‘reproductive autonomy’ — and recommends expanded access to abortion, contraception and gender norm changes worldwide. Fertility rose at the ...

We are still in the season of prognostications about the year ahead. But I gave my forecasts for 2026 last week. Today I am looking much further into the future, examining our demographic prospects.

Global fertility rates are declining faster than previously projected, signaling irreversible demographic shifts that could redefine how businesses engage with consumers, according to the latest ...

There’s something quietly happening in Chile—and across much of the world—that rarely makes headlines, but speaks volumes about the direction of our shared future: fewer babies are being born. Much ...

Australia is now at a "tipping point," facing a reality in which the number of deaths outpaces the number of births, which could lead to "human catastrophe," an analysis shows. New data analysis from ...

On a global level, religious groups expand and shrink due to a mix of factors. Demographic factors, such as age structure, fertility and mortality (or life expectancy), tell us whether people in ...

For decades, we’ve been told that the world’s biggest problem is too many people. From Malthus in the 18th century to “The Population Bomb” in the 1960s, the warnings were dire: More people would mean ...