India’s growing lion population should be cause for celebration, but it’s also a deadly problem

Five-year-old Pulsing Ajnera was playing with his brothers in a field near their home in the western Indian state of Gujarat, ...
Forbes

Economic Challenge: Dependency Rates Rise As Population Growth Falls

Birth rates have dropped faster than life expectancy has increased, causing slower population growth around the world. Forecasts from the United Nations predict that world population will actually ...
The Economist

A contracting population need not be a catastrophe

A shrinking population will have profound consequences. It will turn expectations about everything from housing to greenhouse ...

The World Is Hurtling Toward Peak Urban Population

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Pew Research Center

8. Jewish population change

Jews are the smallest religious group analyzed separately in this report, accounting for 0.2% of the global population. Most Jews live either in North America (primarily in the United States) or in ...
Nature

People are having fewer babies: Is it really the end of the world?

In 1970, a woman in Mexico might have expected to have seven children, on average. By 2014, that figure had fallen to around two. As of 2023, it was just 1.6. That means that the population is no ...
New York Post

World’s Jewish population still hasn’t recovered from the Holocaust, shocking analysis shows: ‘Reminder of how many people we lost’

The world’s Jewish population has yet to recover from the Holocaust that wiped out more than a third of its members, a stunning new analysis shows. There were an estimated 16.6 million Jews alive in ...