What are the underlying principles of how populations change over time? Two basic principles are involved, the idea of exponential growth and its ultimate control. The basics of population ecology ...

Learn more about why the human population seems to be in decline and what that could mean for the future.

Letter: Amy Jankiewicz says the government must address the effect of global increases in population and unsustainable consumption patterns as intertwined challenges ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The UN estimates that the world’s population will top out at 10.3 billion by 2080 before it enters a slow descent, ending 100 million lower by 2100.

Paul Spoonley received funding from MBIE to look at New Zealand’s future population as part of a project labelled Nga Tangata Iho Mairangi. A year after the 2023 census, changes were already taking ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...

The global population surpassed eight billion in 2023, yet the way nations harness this human potential vary starkly. India has overtaken China as the world's most populous country, with 1.43 billion ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...