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.

More people moved to Texas and Florida among the 50 states in 2023, while New York and California experienced declines in their populations, new census data found. Texas added the more people to ...

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 ...

A National Geographic cover purportedly saying that white people are a threat to the human population and calling for their “extinction” has been fabricated.

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 ...