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.

In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying less about overpopulation and more about depopulation. Comparing it to ...

Wealthy countries all over the world are struggling with historically low birth rates—a new study has looked at why this is the case and has a slightly different answer to what research has said ...

What many might perceive as a gradual shift is, in reality, a profound demographic transformation with far-reaching implications that could reshape economies, societies, and even our understanding of ...

The United States is one of many countries struggling with declining birth rates and this is partly because more people are abandoning religion, population and religion experts told Newsweek. There ...

A similar trend was observed among dyads with household income at 100-199% of the federal poverty level, with preterm birth rates rising from 7.8% in 2011 to 10.0% ( P <0.001) in 2021. Preterm birth ...