A groundbreaking study published in The Lancet has sent shockwaves through the global community, revealing that the world’s ...

There is a day for just about anything, including the world's population. Did you know that Every July 11th is World Population Day? This international day was established by the Governing Council of ...

Our crowded world will see a slowdown in population by the end of the century. That's according to a new report by the Pew Research Center. The group said Monday it expects the world's population to ...

Over the past century, the world's human population has exploded from around 2 billion to 8 billion. Meanwhile, the average fertility rate has gradually declined. And if that trend continues as it has ...

In “Falling Birthrates Won’t Solve Our Problems” (Opinion guest essay, July 2), the economists Michael Geruso and Dean Spears do not mention a major potential benefit to the planet with fewer humans: ...

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with economist and demographer Dean Spears about why he thinks depopulation isn't the answer to the global climate crisis. For many young people thinking about starting a ...

Occasionally, an article from the 1960s will resurface with the claim that mathematics once predicted the exact date of the ...