US population to start shrinking after 2056, CBO says

The CBO predicts deaths will outpace births by 2030. The population will start to decline by 2056, they predict.
WYSO Public Radio

U.S. population growth is slowing. The immigration crackdown is a major factor

Congressional forecasters have lowered their projection for U.S. population growth over the next decade by 7 million people ...
Shields Gazette on MSN

Watch as timelapse reveals the dramatic transformation of dockland in South Shields

Civil engineering works to transform derelict dockland, in South Shields, into a vibrant resident quarter is nearing ...
Morning Overview on MSN

A hidden world? Astronomers may have found a new solar system planet

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...
Forbes

Tokyo Loses Title Of World’s Most Populous City, According To UN

UN rankings updated using new criteria to better reflect the mass urban transformation driving a global shift in how we live—and the megacities emerging from it. A new United Nations report has ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Jakarta overtakes Tokyo as world's largest city, according to UN

Asia is home to nine of the world's 10 most populous cities in 2025, according to the United Nations. A new report identifies Jakarta, with 42 million residents, as having the largest population ...
CNN

Curaçao makes history as smallest nation by population to qualify for a World Cup

The tiny Caribbean island country Curaçao will go to the 2026 World Cup as the smallest nation by population ever to qualify for the marquee event in men’s soccer. Curaçao, an autonomous territory of ...
New Scientist

Four-fifths of the world's population now live in urban areas

More than 80 per cent of people worldwide now live in towns and cities, according to a major United Nations report, and this figure is set to rise further, underscoring the need to ensure urban areas ...
webtv.un.org

UN projects world population to peak within this century

One in four people globally live in a country whose population has already peaked in size. 11 July 2024 - According to the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results published today, it is ...
The Washington Post

China’s demographic crisis means it’s going to run out of workers

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The biggest challenge China faces right now isn’t the Trump ...
Popular Mechanics

Humanity Will Stop Growing Within 55 Years—After That, It’ll Start Shrinking

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.
The Economist

A contracting population need not be a catastrophe

According to Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the father of at least a dozen children, the greatest potential risk to the future of civilisation is population collapse. Taking a very long-term ...