We are still in the season of prognostications about the year ahead. But I gave my forecasts for 2026 last week. Today I am looking much further into the future, examining our demographic prospects.

British trend of deaths outnumbering births. A think tank says future population growth will depend on immigration.

The application portal for the 2026 childcare subsidy fully opened on Monday, according to National Health Commission. To ...

The new UN report has reshaped the list of the world’s top 10 most populous cities. Notably, nine of the 10 are in Asia ...

During RSS's centenary celebrations, Bhagwat stressed that communities with a fertility rate of 2.1 will slowly go extinct and that a birth rate of over 3 should be maintained. Marrying at the right ...

Russia’s demographic decline, turbocharged by the war in Ukraine, has given birth to “one of the world’s most extreme natalism campaigns – and one of the weirdest”, said The Atlantic. The country’s ...

The world's population might still be climbing, but here's the thing: dozens of countries are quietly facing a crisis that ...

How should temporary-migration schemes operate? Despite their upsides, existing programmes have limitations. Looking at ...

Precipitous population decline in the world’s leading developed countries threatens to foreshadow similar issues in the United States, a trajectory the Trump administration likely holds limited ...

The Greenland shark can live up to 500 years. The kind of longevity that probably has something to do with its home: cold, ...

Introduction Many neonatal deaths are avoidable using existing low-cost evidence-based interventions. This study evaluated ...

Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time and the numbers for having another child just don’t add up.