Since 1970, 73% of global wildlife has been lost, while the world's population has doubled to 8 billion. Research shows this ...

The population of the United States has grown almost 123 times since the first federal census was conducted after the Declaration of Independence.

In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying ...

Over the last five years, while local jails in the United States have been holding fewer people, New Mexico’s largest jail ...

Overall, Shasta lost 1,954 people since the pandemic shutdown in April, 2020 — dropping its population from 182,155 in April 2020, to 180,201 on Jan. 1, 2025, according to the California ...

For journalists who cover immigration, better ICE detention data now available Researchers created a new method to calculate how many people are detained at ICE facilities — and uncovered some hidden ...

Decline from peak population: -40,672 people Peak population: 179,260 (1970) Current population: 138,588 Major events in city history: Rapid suburban growth in the 1950s and 1960s, opening of the ...

It’s a contradiction of numbers that reveals a deep cultural divide: Transgender people make up less than 1% of the U.S. population, but they have become a major piece on the political chess ...

But Democratic politicians also know the population is relatively small, said Seth Masket, director of the Center on American Politics at the University of Denver, who is writing a book about the GOP.

Between July 2023 and July 2024, the population declined from 913,909 to 910,530. This is also nearly 20,000 fewer people than the county had in 2020, when its population was 930,015.

A new way of estimating rural populations has found that we may be undercounting people who live in these areas, potentially inflating the global population beyond the official count of 8.2 ...