From lonely deaths among the elderly to shrinking armies, falling birthrates are reshaping societies beyond the economic sphere.

Declining population or depopulation has emerged after years of warnings about overpopulation. While biologists see benefits ...

Canada’s population declined by more than 100,000 people in 2025, marking the first annual decline in records that date back to the 1940s as the federal government tries to rein in the number of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children play in a nursery school in Koga city, Fukuoka prefecture on April 16, 2020. - Toshiro Kubo/he Yomiuri Shimbun/AP/File ...

A declining population can wreak havoc on a country whose various social programs are based on growing numbers of citizens. For instance, the Social Security system in the U.S., and similar ones in ...

Much of the current talk about population decline fixates on how low birth rates ultimately doom humanity to extinction. The demographic math is grim. To simplify, imagine a population of one hundred ...

If there’s one single consistent advantage the United States has carried since its founding, it is its ability to draw talent and expand its population. Now, as the country prepares to celebrate its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The country's immigrant population may have dropped by roughly 2 million people in the first six months of the year, according to ...

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 ...

Many who were in college in the 1960s and 1970s read "The Population Bomb" by Stanford Professors Paul and Anne Ehrlich. The book warned of the dire consequences of overpopulation. Their mid-twentieth ...

OTTAWA—Canada’s population notched a rare decline in the latest quarter and the first since border restrictions were imposed during the height of the pandemic, underscoring a shift for a country where ...