The U.S. population is expected to begin shrinking by 2056 due to decreasing birth rates and immigration, according to ...

The population of the United States has grown almost 123 times since the first federal census was conducted after the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. In 1780, the ...

In a country where some 68 million Latin Americans — nearly 20% of the population — are redefining their place in public life, Latino identity in the United States is at a turning point. Growth no ...

We seem fascinated by generations, using them to evoke shared experiences and to push us apart. Demography, the science of population change, defines a cohort as a group of people born at roughly the ...

The global human population has been climbing for the past two centuries. But what is normal for all of us alive today — growing up while the world is growing rapidly — may be a blip in human history.