Social Media Ideas for Population Projections

Gavan Reilly: 7.8 million people and 260 TDs by 2049? How Ireland's population surge affects the Dáil

Ireland now has 5.53 million people, and extrapolating some of the data puts us on course for almost 7.8 million by 2049, bringing the constitutional link between population and TD...

Mapped: How the American Population Map Will Shift by 2050

The U.S. could add 28 million people by 2050, with Texas and Florida alone accounting for 62% of the projected increase.

Italy population to shrink by nearly 4 million by 2050 as ageing accelerates

Italy's population is projected to significantly decrease by 2050. Birth rates remain low, while the elderly population is expected to grow. This demographic shift will create ne...

The U.S. Will Have More Seniors Than Children by 2029

This graphic shows how the U.S. population is aging, with seniors projected to outnumber children by 2029.

Italy's population is set to shrink by 13 million by 2080

Statistics agency projects steady decline from 58.9 million today to 45.8 million within 55 years, as births fall and the population ages. Italy's population is on track to fall b...

German population will fall from 83.3 million to 81.8m by 2045: Study

The German population will decline to around 81.8 million by 2045 from 83.3 million currently, according to a study presented by the Berlin Institute for Population and Development...

Population pyramid in 3-D and over time

A population pyramid shows the age distribution of a population, usually with counts…Tags: Karim Douïeb, population, world

Mapped: Europe’s Surging Migrant Population (2000–2024)

Explore how Europe's migrant population changed since 2000, from the UK's 7.1 million increase to Malta's record 827% growth.

US population trends by state: Winners and losers in 2026

The U.S. population continues to grow, but that growth has slowed dramatically, with the year-over-year increase now below 1%. Some areas feel this shift more acutely than others,...

Health, wealth and housing: here’s what forecasters think Australia will look like in 2066

The country will be home to 40 million people, but fewer people will be having even fewer babiesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, f...

Quiz: We Bet You Can't Name All the Countries Expected to Have the Largest Populations in 2050

The world's population is expected to continue growing until around 2080, yet not every country's population will increase. Can you guess which nations are projected to have the b...

Demographic Facts College Students Should Know in 2026

A collection of essential demographic statistics gives college students a clearer picture of population, age, race and ethnicity, immigration, education, income, poverty, employmen...

Population Age Structures of Countries

PORTLAND, USA, September 1 (IPS) - The age structures of populations vary considerably across countries. Some countries have relatively young populations, with large proportions c...

Ageing population in Ireland will see rise of up to 58 per cent in need for family care

Report says demographic change will put increasing pressure on family carers and formal care services

Mapped: The Share of Each Country’s Population Under 18

Which countries have the most children? See where children make up the largest and smallest shares of national populations worldwide.

World GDP 2024 to 2037 – Country by Country

This is the nextbigfuture GDP forecast scenario, not an IMF, Anthropic, or consensus forecast. It took the Anthropic economic forecasts for their base case and their bullish case....

Taiwan faces twin demographic milestones in 2027

Tanzania’s population to hit 120 million by 2050, fuelling construction demand

Tanzania’s population is projected to reach about 120 million by 2050, driving demand for housing, transport networks, commercial and industrial buildings, hospitals, water and san...

Demographic changes and behavioural responses shape vulnerability to infectious disease outbreaks

by Abbie Evans, William S. Hart, Eunok Jung, Kyeongah Nah, Karla Bonic-Babic, Sung-mok Jung, Robin N. Thompson Demographic shifts are reshaping population age structures worldwide...

How to Keep Global Agricultural Output Rising

Global population is expected to keep rising for the next 50-60 years, because it will take awhile for the demographic force of declining birthrates to overcome the life expectanci...

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Foreign-language population in Uusimaa projected to double by 2045

The number of foreign-language speakers living in Finland’s Uusimaa region is projected to reach about 674,000 by 2045, close to twice the current level, according to a new regiona...

How did it go, this prediction from ten years ago about Japanese fertility in 2026?

From 2017: Gaurav Sood points us to this post, “Why did so many Japanese families avoid having children in 1966?”, by Randy Olson, which includes the excellent graph above and the...

Australia in 2066 will be bigger older and wealthier but the housing divide will deepen

Australia will have almost 40 million people by 2066, our economy will be more than twice as large and average real incomes will be considerably higher. Yet beneath those reassurin...