Demographer Jennifer Sciubba joins WIRED to answer the internet's questions about population and demographics. What is demography? What perspective can demographics provide about populations and ...

The U.S. Census Bureau has projected that the nation's population will hit 341,145,670 at midnight on New Year's Day. It marks an increase of over 2.6 million people (0.78%) from January 1, 2024, and ...

A primary risk, as a population ages, is under-investment in children. As children make up an increasing share of the ...

The endangered whales face multiple threats, from a lack of their primary food, chinook salmon, to underwater noise from vessels that makes it harder to hunt, as well as pollution and inbreeding.

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. By every available measure, California’s population is growing again, albeit modestly. The dark years following the ...

The city is finalizing its new comprehensive plan, its first since 2008 when the population was half of what it’s estimated ...

Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the ...