Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan is pushing for more pedestrians. AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world’s major ...

Birth rates have dropped faster than life expectancy has increased, causing slower population growth around the world. Forecasts from the United Nations predict that world population will actually ...

ST. LOUIS — A growing number of civic and business groups are highlighting the St. Louis metropolitan area’s stagnant population as an urgent problem, and they’re pushing the region’s planning ...

The departure of Michigan’s first chief growth officer two years brings a coda to a very loud discussion of the state’s declining population, and brings a message that marketing, for all its powers, ...

Julia Ingram is a data journalist for CBS News Confirmed. She uses data analysis and computation to cover misinformation, AI and social media. The United States population experienced its slowest ...

The population of some of the largest U.S. metro areas is falling amid a decline in immigration, according to new estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The data found that most U.S.

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland metropolitan area grew by about 2,500 people last year, reaching roughly 2.16 million residents, according to new Census data. But the story behind that growth is more ...

Texas’ population grew more than most other states in 2025 as growth has generally slowed across the United States. A report ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado’s population rose by 24,059 people last year, the weakest increase measured since 1990, according to an update Tuesday from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don’t know what will happen with future populations. However, the next 20 years are ...