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Demographic trends, birth and fertility, ageing and life-expectancy research.
Venezuela is seeking to rebuild after a period of political upheaval and the destruction caused by twin earthquakes earlier this year, Acting President Delcy Rodríguez told world leaders at the United Nations on Wednesday.
Fatimah* was 13 when she was married off to an older man. Two years later, she gave birth to twin daughters.
In war-torn Gaza, a growing number of women-headed households face “impossible decisions” every day, amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes and still-scarce resources, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.
Falling fertility rates have created a unique scenario in human history: many countries are experiencing structural population decline.
The United Nations has once again urged warring parties in Sudan to protect civilians as the fighting continues to take a heavy toll on the population.
More than eight in 10 young people aged 15 to 24 worldwide are now online, and in low-income countries they outpace the rest of the population nearly two to one.
The UN rights chief expressed alarm on Wednesday over the sharp increase in executions and death sentences in Iran since the US-Israeli bombing campaign began in late February, warning that capital punishment is being used to intimidate the population and suppress dissent.
More than 256,000 people in Djibouti – around 25 per cent of the population – are likely to face crisis or emergency level hunger over the coming months, a UN-backed global food monitoring network warned in a new report released Friday.
Explore how populations are distributed across settlement types, which cities are growing fastest, what living conditions in urban areas look like, and much more.
Fertility rates are falling worldwide not because young people are rejecting marriage, children or family life but because many are facing economic and housing constraints.
The way societies talk about ageing can shape everything from public policy to people's own expectations of later life, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) said on Wednesday in a new report that calls for shifting away from narratives that portray…
U.S. fertility rates have hit historic lows, but three common measures tell different stories about whether American families are truly shrinking.
Six-in-ten US adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Here's a look at data on abortion rates, providers, demographics and more.
To understand how different-sex couples share household and parenting tasks when both parents have full-time jobs, we asked parents in this type of family who does more when it comes to these responsibilities. The data shows that, in families with a mother and a father, moms…
How much would fertility rates, life expectancy, or migration rates need to change to stop the population from shrinking?
We created an interactive tool that lets you test how changes in fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates will change future populations.