China’s Birthrate Plunges to Lowest Level Since 1949 | New York Times Lots of coverage in the press about low fertility and population decline in China www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/b... #lowfertility

Animated Map Shows How the Five Major Religions Spread Across the World (3000 BC — 2000 AD) www.openculture.com/2025/08/anim...

“Significant proportion” of world’s rural population missing from global estimates, says study | EurekAlert www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

College-educated Americans are still flocking to Seattle | Axios www.axios.com/local/seattl...

Births in Japan in 2024 fall to record low of 721,000 | Japan Today japantoday.com/category/nat...

46.1 million people counted in Iraq’s first census in nearly 40 years | NBC News www.nbcnews.com/news/world/4...

Amid low birth rates, war and emigration, Ukraine’s numbers are dwindling | Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Charted: When the World’s Largest Countries Will Hit Peak Population | Visual Capitalist www.visualcapitalist.com/peak-populat...

How will the EU population fluctuate with and without migration? [Video] | Euronews www.euronews.com/video/2025/0...

U.S. headed toward demographic cliff as population ages | CBS News www.cbsnews.com/video/us-hea...

Charted: The Countries that Speak the Most Languages | Visual Capitalist www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-sp...

Marriages in China plunge by a record in 2024, fanning birthrate concerns | Reuters www.reuters.com/world/china/...

New Study Reveals Native American Population Crash Before European Contact the researchers found that Native American populations reached their maximum around 1150 AD, before experiencing a 30% decline between then and 1500 | Ancient Origins www.ancient-origins.net/news-history...

Net population influx into Tokyo recovers to pre-pandemic level | Japan Today japantoday.com/category/nat...

Northern Ireland's population is projected to peak at 1.95m in 2033 before starting to decline, a report by the official statistics agency suggests. The projection from NISRA says the population will start falling due to a low birth rate. | BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...

Poland's Birth Rate at Lowest Since WW2 | Newsweek www.newsweek.com/poland-birth...

Today the U.S. Census Bureau released new findings from its National Experimental Well-Being Statistics (NEWS) project. www.census.gov/data/experim...

UK population exceeds that of France for first time on record, ONS data shows Office of National Statistics projects population will reach 72.5m by mid-2032, with growth driven by migration | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Between mid-2022 and mid-2032, the population of the UK is projected to increase by 4.9 million (7.3%) from an estimated 67.6 million to 72.5 million; arising from net migration of 4.9 million compared with 6.8 million births and 6.8 million deaths. | ONS www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula....

Spain’s growing diversity: Nearly a quarter of the population is of foreign origin | EuroWeekly euroweeklynews.com/2025/01/28/s...

Visualizing the World’s Super-Aged Societies | Visual Capitalist www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-...

United Nations report says more than a half of Jamaica’s population experienced food insecurity between 2021 and 2023 | IRIE FM iriefm.net/united-natio...

New historical research by economist Claudia Goldin finds link between fertility rates, gender roles | The Harvard Gazette news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

VOA Russian: War plunges Russia deeper into demographic crisis | VOA www.voanews.com/a/voa-russia...

A National Synthetic Populations Dataset for the United States using Iterative Proportional Fitting to create synthetic population from publicly available U.S. Census American Community Survey 2015–2019 (ACS) 5-year data | Nature - Scientific Data www.nature.com/articles/s41...

China's "dragon" baby boom may boost population in 2024, report says | Reuters www.reuters.com/world/china/...

'Youth dividend': Canada's population growth crisis could yield long-term benefits Youthful skew of population boom could lead to higher productivity, spending: CIBC economist | Yahoo Finance ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/youth-d...

German population inches up to 83.6 million amid drop in immigration | Yahoo News via DPA www.yahoo.com/news/german-...

Experts warn about the 'crumbling infrastructure' of federal government data | by @hansilowang.bsky.social via @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/01/24/n...

The population paradox in India India is growing in some states, declining in others – but rapidly ageing all over. | The Interpreter (The Lowy Institute) www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

Alabama faces a ‘demographic cliff’ as deaths surpass births | AL.com (aldotcom) www.al.com/news/2025/01...

Russia's economy faces a demographic disaster and risks seeing its population reduced by half by the end of this century, think tank says | Yahoo! News via Business Insider www.yahoo.com/news/russias...

Food Insecurity Deepens in Lebanon Following Conflict, New Report Shows | UN World Food Program USA www.wfpusa.org/news-release...

Aging populations are being ignored in global tech agreements. This ignores shifts in population dynamics and neglects the enormous societal and economic contributions that can be harnessed. | Atlantic Council www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/geotec...

There are now 12.4 million forcibly displaced due to the outbreak of conflict in Sudan since April 2023, including 8.8 million internally and 3.3 million in neighboring countries. | ReliefWeb reliefweb.int/map/sudan/su...

Charted: The World Has Passed ‘Peak Child | Visual Capitalist www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-the-...

Canada’s population could exceed 59 million people by 2074, Statistics Canada projects | Toronto Star www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Vietnam's birth rate sank to a record low in 2024, with the total fertility rate falling to 1.91 children per woman. This marked the third consecutive year the figure remained below the replacement level of 2.1—and happening against the background of a booming economy | DW www.dw.com/en/vietnam-b...

The share of the workforce working from home has declined in recent years but remains more than double what it was before COVID-19. Remote workers tend to be older, are more likely to be White and less likely to be in poverty. | U.S. Census Bureau www.census.gov/library/stor...

Nigeria admitted as partner country of multinational Brics bloc Brics now represents over half the world’s population and more than 45 per cent of global GDP, signalling its growing clout on the international stage. | RFI www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20...

International migration spurs highest U.S. population growth since 2001 | SIAdvance www.silive.com/data/2025/01...

More countries, including China, are grappling with shrinking and aging populations | AP News apnews.com/article/chin...

China’s population falls for a third straight year, posing challenges for its government and economy | AP News apnews.com/article/chin...

Visualizing the Global Population in 2035, by Generation | Visual Capitalist www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-...

Thailand’s Population Drops Below 66 Million as Births Hit 75-Year Low | Khaosod English www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2025/01...

Facts and Trends From 2024 | Population Reference Bureau 1: The world continues to grow older, with no sign of change 2: Children are an increasingly smaller share of world’s population 3: Immigration is helping many countries stave off population loss www.prb.org/articles/fiv...

Australia’s Population Has Grown, But Its House of Representatives Hasn’t | the Diplomat thediplomat.com/2025/01/aust...

Mapped: Michigan's population changes | Axios www.axios.com/local/detroi...

"The entire social contract in rich countries — of ever-rising wealth and the ability to retire and live comfortably in old age — is threatened by the reality of 'youth scarcity,' as researchers at [McKinsey] put it." | Axios www.axios.com/2025/01/16/f...

A McKinsey report investigating the economic impact of declines in birth rates found that many of the world’s richest economies will need to at least double productivity growth to maintain historical improvements in living standards. | Financial Times www.ft.com/content/19ce...