Fertility rates in nearly all countries will be too low to sustain population levels by the end of the century, and most of the world’s live births will be occurring in poorer countries, according to a study published on Wednesday. The trend will lead to a “baby boom” and “baby bust” divide across the world, […]
The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year’s Day it will stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday. The worldwide growth rate in the past year was just under 1 percent. At the start of 2024, […]
The number of foreign-born individuals living in the United States topped nearly 50 million in October 2023, marking a new record high, according to a new report published Nov. 30. Approximately 49.5 million individuals who were originally born in another country—including both legal and illegal immigrants—were living in the United States as of last month, […]
MINNEAPOLIS—An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana are taking steps to stop the invasion. In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba pose a new threat. They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival […]
People are leaving Miami! Life there has become so expensive that almost 80,000 residents packed their bags and left between 2020 and 2022. It’s the first population decline in the city in decades. NTD spoke to independent location counsel John Boyd of The Boyd Company, who said cost-of-living increases in Miami are a reflection of […]
TOKYO—Japan’s population declined in all of its 47 prefectures for the first time in a record drop, while its number of foreign residents hit a new high, reaching almost 3 million people, according to government data released Wednesday. The population of Japanese nationals fell by about 800,000 people, or 0.65 percent, to 122.4 million in […]
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with demographer and author Paul Morland to discuss how the lack of births and deaths is changing the world we live in. Paul talks about developed societies moving towards societal collapse. As people become more educated, wealthy and comfortable, their priorities change and family sizes shrink. He also talks about […]
Connecticut lawmakers voted Friday to take steps to protect people from the state’s growing bear population. But they stopped far short of a bear hunt and restrictions on people unintentionally feeding the hungry animals. The legislation, which cleared the House of Representatives on a 115–32 vote after being revamped by the Senate, instead explicitly allows […]
The U.S. population has gotten older in the past two decades, with adults 65 or older growing by more than a third from 2010 to 2020, while the share of children under the age of 5 declined, according to Census Bureau data released May 25. From 2000 to 2020, baby boomers (born 1946–1964) and millennials […]
Nearly 700,000 people moved out of California in the last two years. Siyamak Khorrami, host of California Insider explores the reasons why there has been such a sharp decline in population in recent years in his new documentary, “Leaving California: The Untold Story.” The film was just released last week. NTD spoke with him to see […]
India is on course to beat out China in terms of resident numbers. According to United Nations projections, it’s now poised to become the world’s most populous country. With a population of over 1.4 billion, India is expected to take the top spot by the end of this month. India’s 2011 census put the country’s […]
SEOUL—South Korea’s fertility rate dropped last year to a record low, data showed on Wednesday, in yet another grim milestone for the country with the world’s lowest number of expected children for each woman. The average number of expected babies per South Korean woman over her reproductive life fell to 0.78 in 2022 down from […]
NEW DELHI—In two months, India is projected to become the world’s most populous country with over 1.4 billion people. But for at least a year, and possibly longer, the country won’t know how many people it has because it hasn’t been able to count them. India’s once-in-a-decade census, due in 2021 and delayed due to […]
The population of the world’s most populous nation is making headlines in recent days, raising questions over how a dramatic loss in population will impact China and beyond. NTD spoke to Joel Griffith, an economic research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, for his thoughts.
It’s unclear how much of a toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had on China’s population. That’s due to what many call a lack of transparency on data coming out of China, but some unusual numbers have brought the true scale of pandemic’s death toll under suspicion. One example came in 2020, when China’s biggest cellphone […]
Is China falling toward second place? India seems on track to surpass the world’s most populous nation after China’s number fell for the first time in decades—by 850,000 people to 1.41 billion in 2020. But what makes it such a big deal? China is facing an aging population and dwindling workforce. What’s more, COVID-19 is […]
