Of all the doomsday predictions about our planetary future from the 1960s and 1970s, perhaps none was so comically off the mark as the widespread fear about overpopulation.

The population has reached 8 billion — but experts aren’t worried about overpopulation. Here’s why Why humanity at 8 billion people does not mean we've hit a “Malthusian catastrophe” ...

The aging population is definitely a coming storm, but projections and predictions do not perfectly reflect reality. We can only guess so much about the future. But the future is in our hands.

People have been worrying about the world’s pending overpopulation for more than two centuries. Robert Thomas Malthus sounded the alarm in 1797 with "An Essay on the Principles of the Population ...

Vietnam terminates its decades-old two-child policy as birth rates fall to 1.91 children per woman, aiming to address an aging population where citizens under 15 have declined from 43% to under 25%.

Population ageing is furthest along in Europe and Northern America, Australia and New Zealand, and most of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia, according to the report.

China suffers ageing population nearly 40 years after introduction of one-child policy. Almost 40 years ago, China took a drastic step to tackle overpopulation. Now, plunging fertility and slowing ...