The admonition that we must remember the past to avoid repeating it has always struck me as strange. If human history teaches us anything, it is that the unexpected keeps happening, and responding to ...

Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African ...

Fertility rates have fallen everywhere outside of sub-Saharan Africa. And they have fallen faster, and dropped even further, ...

Anxiety disorders, characterized by an excessive apprehension about real or perceived threats and dysfunctional behaviors ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world's second most populous nation, ...

Now that the world is becoming one big melting pot ... with a significant portion of the population identifying as nonreligious. Let’s read about the 10 countries with the largest atheist ...

Over the past century, the world’s population has exploded—surging from around one and a half billion people in 1900 to roughly eight billion today. But according to the political economist Nicholas ...

shrinking world will feel like. All we can do is adapt." There are some analysts who think the peak is coming much quicker. The population will eventually peak, but "one after another, the ...