To photograph our cover story on the population milestone reached last year, Justin Jin and Yagazie Emezi captured individual stories in lands they each know well. By Emily Martin March 21, 2023 ...

New York City's lost 5.3% of its population in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, ... Over 468,200 people fled the city between April 2020 and July 2022.

Three variables determine the fluctuations of a country’s population: births, deaths, and migration flows. The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting all three. The pandemic very likely won’t ...

I n the roughly 250 years since the Industrial Revolution the world’s population, like its wealth, has exploded. Before the end of this century, however, the number of people on the planet could ...