In 1960, three scientists published a paper in Science that calculated, with deliberate provocation, that the human population would become infinite on Friday, November 13, 2026. That date is now ...

This paper studies the effects of population growth on welfare in an OLG model, in which lower population growth raises output per worker but also reduces the ratio of workers to retirees. Under ...

In a new open-access study that I published with my late colleague Kostya Trachenko from Queen Mary University of London, I propose a surprisingly simple nonlinear mathematical equation that unifies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, the study by Alessio Zaccone and the late Kostya Trachenko doesn't predict population ...

In 1960, a paper published in Science offered a grim prediction: the rapidly exploding human population would reach infinity on Friday, November 13, 2026, resulting in the extinction of humankind.

That growth could decrease to just over 5% by 2050. The expected growth rate between 2040 and 2050 is about 1.8%. "Population growth rates have generally declined since the 1960s, with a temporary ...

Houston population growth is slowing as immigration falls, pressuring housing, labor supply, development plans, and suburban expansion.

Contrary to the “urban doom loop” scenario, recently released census statistics show that most big U.S. cities, with populations over 250,000, are now doing much better demographically than they were ...