Population

Vast Stretches of America Are Shrinking. Almost All of Them Voted for Trump.

Jordan Weissmann

Aug 14, 2021 5:40 AM

The Doomsday Sperm Theory Embraced by the Far Right

Alexander Borsa, Marion Boulicault, Meredith Reiches, and Sarah S. Richardson

May 14, 2021 11:29 AM

Left Out of the Census

What Next Aug 11, 2020 5:00 AM

Where Rich People Don’t Own Cars, Mapped

Henry Grabar

May 17, 2019 3:01 PM

Watch the World’s Human Population Soar From Thousands to 7 Billion in This Hypnotizing Video

Jon Kelvey

Nov 17, 2016 10:37 AM

Is China’s Smog Creating a Class of Rich Environmental Migrants?

Ma Liang

Feb 17, 2016 10:57 AM

China’s One-Child Policy Meant Millions of “Hidden” Children Couldn’t Register With the Government. Until Now.

Wang Jing

Sept 25, 2015 11:22 AM

Worried Your Country Doesn’t Have Enough Babies? Make It Easier for Women to Work.

Jordan Weissmann

April 08, 2015 5:21 PM

By 2100 the World’s Population Could Be 11 Billion

Lily Hay Newman

Sept 18, 2014 6:48 PM

Are Hispanics Joining the White Mainstream?

Jamelle Bouie

May 21, 2014 5:02 PM

The History of Humanity Is a History of Hunger

Mark Joseph Stern

April 16, 2014 9:43 AM

One State Has Seen 10 Straight Years of Population Influx

Rob Wile

Jan 03, 2014 5:53 PM

Calculating Overpopulation: Why One American Equals 30 Pakistanis or 250 Ethiopians.

Sam Kornell

Nov 15, 2013 4:30 PM

Dropping the One-Child Policy Might Not Bring Back China’s “Missing Girls”

Joshua Keating

Nov 15, 2013 12:16 PM

A Fascinating Chart of the World’s Population by Longitude and Latitude

Joshua Keating

Sept 12, 2013 3:16 PM

Want to Bet on the Future of the Earth? Let’s Talk Terms.

Paul Sabin

Sept 12, 2013 1:12 PM

Proof That Everybody Lives in Asia (MAP)

Matthew Yglesias

May 07, 2013 2:30 PM

Carl Bosch Is Why You Are Alive and the Gulf of Mexico Isn’t

Jonathan Mingle

March 12, 2013 8:55 AM

It Is Absurd To Suggest That the World Population Could Decline Enough for Humans To Go Extinct

John Seager

Jan 11, 2013 10:31 AM

Forget Overcrowding. The World Population Could Start Declining.

Jeff Wise

Jan 09, 2013 7:45 AM

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