The world's population is growing but in some countries birth rates are plummeting - so do we have too many people or too few ...

In November, the state council, or cabinet rallied local governments to direct resources towards fixing China's population crisis and spread respect for childbearing and marriages "at the right age".

In parts of California and New Jersey, populations are set to decline while insurance costs grow, leading to home-price ...

Population decline is likely to continue due to gloomy economic prospects for young people and as Chinese women “confront entrenched labour market gender discriminations”, Yun Zhou, a ...

Half of Sudan ’s population, or 24.6 million people, is facing high levels of acute food insecurity, Doctors Without Borders ...

Severe shortages of food and clean water mean that the entirety of Gaza’s population is facing crisis levels of food insecurity. Although lack of humanitarian access is likely obscuring the full ...

The creation of thousands of new prison spaces in England and Wales has been held up by environmental regulations, as ...