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On March 7, Los Angeles voters will have the opportunity to vote for or against a two-year moratorium on thousands of real estate development projects in the City of Los Angeles.

As President Obama prepares to leave office, his legacy will include an increase in the number of Americans using food stamps.

Italy continues to suffer from a steadily declining birthrate, especially among native Italians, with live births falling by nearly 20,000 in 2015.

New projections from the American City Business Journals (ACBJ) ranked five Texas metropolitan areas among the fastest growing Top 10 U.S. cities. By 2040, they expect to see explosive population growth.

Although Italy’s birthrate is well below replacement level, radical feminists have attacked the country’s campaign to encourage women to have more children, comparing it to Mussolini’s Fascist government.

Three Texas exurbs are bound to see their population trends continue amid a national survey ranking them in the 10 fastest growing small cities in America. Sprawl

The population of the UK shot up by half a million – 0.8% – in the 12 months of last year. Record levels of immigration were the driving factor, as birth rates and “natural growth” fell. The population of the

In the face of falling birthrates in much of the developed world, Pope Francis and Christian leader James Dobson have sounded the alarm of global under-population, calling on families to reevaluate the gift of children and larger families. In his

Immigrants and their young children now make up more than 25 percent of the population in six U.S. states, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.

Given the option of leaving their hometowns or risking radiation poisoning five years ago, families living near the Fukushima radiation disaster are falling apart, facing divorce, suicide, and cancer. The breakdown of Fukushima families comes as Japan faces a dwindling population it continues to struggle to replenish.

A Canadian island is using Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s potential victory as a way to fix “a bit of a population problem.”

A 23-year-old former nursing home worker has confessed to the murder of three of the facility’s residents, a gruesome crime that is shedding light on rampant abuse of elders in Japan’s overpopulated nursing homes.

Japan’s demographic decline has grown so pronounced that large-scale immigration may be on the table, after generations of resistance.

The foreign-born population in the U.S. will explode from already record levels of 42.4 million, up to 78.2 million in as few as 45 years, according to new report released by the Seate’s subcommittee on immigration and the national interest.

In the year 2016 the United States will add another immigrant to its population every 29 seconds, according to projections from the U.S. Census Bureau.

It seems relevant to ask about the size of the Muslim population in the United States, as a spirited debate rages about how many of them might be “extremists” or prone to “radicalization,” and this seems like the sort of

“Immigration, counting both new admissions and births to immigrant women, was responsible for three-fourths of the growth in our population this century,” the report published this week by the immigration reduction group Negative Population Growth reads. “If current trends continue, immigration will add another 100 million people to the United States in the next 50 years.”

Asian immigrants are expected to overtake immigrants from Latin America as America’s largest immigrant group in the coming 50 years, according to new projections from the Pew Research Center.

The UK is set to become the country with the highest population in the European Union by 2047, according to official EU figures. Britain’s steadily rising population will overtake Germany’s declining population in 32 years’ time, reaching just over 76

United Nations — Move over: The world’s population is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050, a new United Nations report says. And there should be 11.2 billion people on Earth by the end of this century.

The British population grew faster than that of any other major European country over the past twelve months, rising to a record 64.8 million, primarily due to net migration, new figures show. The population of Greece and Spain fell sharply. 

New population estimates released Thursday reveal a striking shift in the composition of America’s population as racial and ethnic minority births are also outpacing minority deaths.

The Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) has just published its report for the year 2014, which reveals a dangerously aging population and a dramatic decline in Italy’s already low birthrate, not seen since the First World War.

A report from the Urban Institute has some disturbing implications for the future of the United States, asserting that birth rates among women 20 to 29 years old between 2007 and 2012 reached historic lows.

The immigrant population in the United States will hit its highest percentage ever in the next eight years, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data released Wednesday by the Center for Immigration Studies.

Nearly one in four Britons will be non-white by 2051, thanks to the high birth rates amongst ethnic minorities, new research has revealed. The majority of the increase will take place within the Indian and Pakistani communities. Studies have previously

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world and, if current trends continue, will pass Christianity somewhere in the middle of this century, before going on to become the world’s dominant religion by 2070.

The population of Texas could double by 2050, says a new report released by the Office of the State Demographer. This would be the result if migration patterns continue at the same pace they have been growing during the 2000-2010 decade.

Austin, Texas was the fastest growing large city in the United States during the post-recession era of 2010 to 2013, according to a recent report by the Census Bureau.

The Census report examined the twenty five largest cities in the U.S., and Austin’s growth during this period — 12 percent — outpaced the rest of the country.

Japan has been trapped in a demographic death spiral for years, as record-low birth rates produce an aging population that lacks enough young workers to sustain it.

New York, which trailed only California and Texas in population, is now trailing Florida, too, according to a new Census Bureau report. California boasts 38.8 million people, Texas ranks second with 26.96 million, but now Florida has 19.9 million, barely surpassing New York, with 19.7 million.