Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan is pushing for more pedestrians. AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world’s major ...

On a special episode (first released on August 1, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Across the globe, populations are in precipitous decline. People are simply not having children at the fertility rate ...

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 ...

The population of some of the largest U.S. metro areas is falling amid a decline in immigration, according to new estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The data found that most U.S.

ST. LOUIS — A growing number of civic and business groups are highlighting the St. Louis metropolitan area’s stagnant population as an urgent problem, and they’re pushing the region’s planning ...

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, ...

Julia Ingram is a data journalist for CBS News Confirmed. She uses data analysis and computation to cover misinformation, AI and social media. The United States population experienced its slowest ...

Readers discuss a guest essay that argued that we should be. To the Editor: Re “Progressives Should Care About Population Decline, Too,” by Victor Kumar (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 6): Dr. Kumar argues ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. For the third consecutive year, California’s population has increased, though the Golden State has still not ...

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland metropolitan area grew by about 2,500 people last year, reaching roughly 2.16 million residents, according to new Census data. But the story behind that growth is more ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado’s population rose by 24,059 people last year, the weakest increase measured since 1990, according to an update Tuesday from the U.S. Census Bureau.