Cairo, a town at the southern tip of Illinois founded in the early 19th century, was given that name because it was expected to grow into a huge metropolis. Located at the confluence of the ...

America's natural-born population could edge toward extinction in just 500 years, startling new data suggests. Not taking into account immigration or major changes in death rates, statisticians ...

Depopulation — unremitting, long-term population decline — promises to be the 21st century’s most important demographic trend. After centuries of seemingly unstoppable increase, world population is on ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Justin Gest (@_Justin Gest) is a professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, where he directs the Public Policy program. He is the author of six books ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, President Joe Biden committed a diplomatic faux pas when he chided India and Japan, two critical US allies, for being ...

Trump's plans to deport millions of immigrants could exacerbate America's demographic challenges. The US birth rate has been falling, which economists say could hobble the labor market and economic ...

On March 26, 2025, the U.S. Census Bureau released its Vintage 2025 county population decline in the US estimates – a detailed annual snapshot of how the American population is shifting across every ...

If immigration declines, tomorrow's economy will need an offsetting boost in technology or capital — something we can simulate.

For decades, the racial composition of the American population could be described with two terms, Black and White. There were members of other racial groups in the United States, too, of course — ...