The U.S. Census Bureau released new population projections this month forecasting that the American fertility rate (the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) will drop to 1.55 by ...

Tanzania is set to see the highest growth rate by 2100 (1.22), followed by Mauritania (1.18), Benin (1.11) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1.01)— all in Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa is ...

Experts are developing maps which can be used to predict the impact of climate change on the distribution of earth’s population by the end of the century. Research group WorldPop, based at the ...

The European city with the biggest population in 2100 will be London, UK with an expected 17.6 million population. Where else in Europe is set to grow? Russia stands out with three cities making the ...

Embargoed access to the paper and contact details for authors are available in Notes to Editors at the end of the release. By 2050, over three-quarters (155 of 204) of countries will not have high ...

CHICAGO — The United States is on the brink of a significant demographic shift, a new study says. By the year 2100, nearly half of its 30,000 cities are expected to experience a decline in population.

Want to see more of NewsNation? Get 24/7 fact-based news coverage with the NewsNation app or add NewsNation as a preferred source on Google! (NewsNation) — The U.S. population is likely to peak at 370 ...

A group of scientists says the number of people will peak in 2064 and drop to about 8.8 billion by 2100, which is two billion less than under the UN’s estimate. Nigeria’s population is said to be ...

Albania’s population could decline to just 512 thousand in the next 80 years, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2019. The UN presents three possible scenarios for each country’s ...