The global fertility rate has, on average, dropped to less than half what it was in the 1960s, according to the United Nations. Reporter People across the world have been having fewer and fewer ...

DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) — Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it. The Chicago boy became a star engineer who ran Motorola’s research and development arm ...

On World Food Day (Oct 16), there are millions of people close to starvation. Famine has been declared in Gaza and parts of Sudan. Many other nations are close to famine because of extreme food ...

In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying less about overpopulation and more about depopulation. Comparing it to ...

Can basketball be a force that helps bring a divided nation, a divided world together? That’s the dream of World Basketball Day. A day — designated by the United Nations to be commemorated every Dec.

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand the religious and spiritual beliefs, practices, and views of the growing number of people around the world who are religiously ...

This report describes the world’s religious makeup in 2020 and how it changed from 2010. We focus on seven categories: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, people who belong to other ...