Statistics show a decline could begin much quicker than previously thought. How will we handle this population decline?

Population trends since 2020 point to a growing issue in South Florida.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Los Angeles County lost 54,000 residents from 2024 to 2025, driven by immigration restrictions and continued ...

Louisiana’s long, slow population decline has had many downstream effects. One that is often overlooked is the effect on the state’s public schools. But as an illuminating analysis published this week ...

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 ...

For decades, the dominant worry about the number of people on Earth was that there would soon be too many for available resources. And indeed, numbers are still growing, with the expectation that we ...

Re “Birthrate Falls as More Wait to Be Parents” (front page, Feb. 28): For decades we worried about teenage pregnancy, unstable households and children born into economic precarity. Now many young ...