Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.

A group of private-sector experts pressed the government to slow the rapid decline in Japan’s population and fix it at 80 million by 2100. In a proposal submitted to Prime Minister Fumio ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most ...

India has completed and made available a year-long compilation of 10,000 human genomes from India, representing 83 population groups, or about 2% of the country’s 4,600 population groups as a ...