The world’s population reached an estimated 8 billion people last month, according to estimates from the United Nations. It took just 12 years for the global population to increase from 7 billion to 8 ...

Hannah Puckett loves McDowell County. The 21-year-old college student has lived here in southern West Virginia her whole life, and if she has her way, she’ll spend the rest of it here, too. But during ...

On Nov. 15, the world’s population will hit 8 billion. In many ways, this is a global success story, representing the culmination of longer life expectancies, fewer maternal and child deaths, and ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct the rate of decline. Michigan saw a decline in its population last year as deaths out-paced births and thousands of residents moved out of state.

For years, it was treated as a demographic law: as countries grow wealthier, they have fewer children. Prosperity, it was believed, inevitably drove birth rates down. This assumption shaped countless ...

The United States population grew by 3.3 million people this year, the highest increase in more than two decades that was primarily driven by immigration, according to data released this week by the U ...