From lonely deaths among the elderly to shrinking armies, falling birthrates are reshaping societies beyond the economic sphere.

ZURICH, March 16 (Reuters) - The Swiss government on Monday pressed the electorate to reject an initiative aimed at ...

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and his party are pushing forward a constitutional reform that would permit life prison sentences in a country that has imprisoned more than 1% of its population i ...

A Democrat-called witness at a Senate hearing drew a draw-dropping response from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., after accusing the ...

By 2050 the world’s population is expected to reach nearly 9.5 billion people, dramatically reshaping which countries dominate the global population rankings. Using United Nations projections based on ...

Closer home, India’s population will continue to grow briefly from its current 1.5 billion to 1.7 billion, and then drop back to 1.5 billion by 2100—leaving the population unchanged after a 75-year ...

Accounting for 20% of global migrants, discover the five countries which have the highest number of citizens living abroad.

In Wisconsin and nationwide, population growth slowed in 2025 amid a significant decline in international migration.

Over the past few decades, Moldova has lost nearly one-third of its population as people left in search of better opportunities abroad. Many online rankings now label it the poorest or even the “worst ...

New research shows a small but growing protest movement in areas that voted overwhelmingly for the president ...

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According to the draft outline of China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30), the country aims to lay a solid foundation for achieving its 2035 goal of doubling its 2020 per capita gross domestic product ...