NEW DELHI—In two months, India is projected to become the world’s most populous country with over 1.4 billion people. But for at least a year, and possibly longer, the country won’t know how many people it has because it hasn’t been able to count them. India’s once-in-a-decade census, due in 2021 and delayed due to…

Commentary As a kid growing up in cold Michigan, I was fascinated by California. The Beach Boys were my favorite band. Disney movies were magic. My family took a summer trip to the Golden State in 1964 when I turned nine, traveling from Disneyland up across the Golden Gate Bridge to the Redwoods. I loved…

Mexico City, with a population of 22 million, is North America’s second-largest urban agglomeration after New York City. In fact, according to a team of archaeologists, this urban lifestyle takes its roots in Mexico. …

Commentary A flurry of reports propagating various economic and demographic statistics from communist China have been in the news lately. Is China on the rebound after reversing Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s signature—and failed—zero-COVID policy? Have Chinese economic problems been obfuscated by false numbers from China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) while avoiding the canary in…

News Analysis More than a dozen Chinese provinces recently announced that they have no plans to build new universities. China experts point out that with the decline in the country’s population, particularly a large number of COVID-19 deaths, there is a significant reduction in the college-age population, and universities will have trouble recruiting enough students…

Is China falling toward second place? India seems on track to surpass the world’s most populous nation after China’s number fell for the first time in decades—by 850,000 people to 1.41 billion in 2020. But what makes it such a big deal? China is facing an aging population and dwindling workforce. What’s more, COVID-19 is…

Texas and Florida lead the U.S. in population growth, according to new Census Bureau estimates. Texas saw the largest population gain in the United States. Florida had the largest percentage increase and the fastest population growth, according to the data. Texas for the first time became the only state other than California to now have…

As 2022 draws to a close, Canada’s population has already grown more than in any other year since Confederation. Statistics Canada says the country’s population grew by 362,453 people, or 0.9 percent, between July and October alone. The federal agency is attributing that to a rise in non-permanent residents, including work-permit holders and people fleeing…

In the past few months, Florida law enforcement officers have seized enough fentanyl to kill the state’s entire 22 million population. Attorney General Ashley Moody announced massive seizures of illicit fentanyl pouring into Florida after being smuggled across the southern border as her office continues to fight the Biden administration in court over its immigration…

Commentary This November, a baby will emerge from her mother’s womb, draw her first breath, and announce her arrival into the world with a tiny cry. While this is the usual protocol for childbirth, one thing, in particular, will mark this child as unique. This baby will be Baby Eight Billion. That day—when our planet…