More than half the global population now owns a smartphone, marking a three percentage point increase from last year. However, about 3.4 billion people still lack access to this essential technology.

For all the talk of Americans fleeing cities, the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau paints a much more favorable picture for Cleveland. The city's population remained essentially steady in 2023, ...

More than 80 per cent of people worldwide now live in towns and cities, according to a major United Nations report, and this figure is set to rise further, underscoring the need to ensure urban areas ...

Julia Laymance spent several months living in and out of homeless shelters. She blames the experience on jail time for an unpaid parking ticket. Rising housing costs and fixed incomes mean that more ...

FILE - Homes in suburban Salt Lake City are shown, April 13, 2019. According to estimates released Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, by the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. population grew by 1.2 million people ...

California's population trickled upward by just 0.05 percent from 2024 to 2025, as Los Angeles lost population due to ...

The total net worth of the UHNW class rose by 6.7% to $59.8 trillion at the end of June 2025 NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Altrata, a leader in intelligence on the wealthy and ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. population expanded by 1.2 million people this year, with growth largely driven by international migration, and the nation now has 333.2 million residents, according to estimates ...

Across the world, governments adopted population-trimming policies, from massively subsidized birth control to promoting two-worker households to China's draconian "one child" policy. Getty Images I ...

The tip of a tripod resting on the center of the 2020 Center of Population Commemorative Survey mark, as part of a GPS survey to determine the precise latitude, longitude, and height of the mark in ...

What are the reasons for the population growth in the states that have increased since the pandemic? Is the decrease in population in some states due to people moving away or decreased birth rates?