Population decline
Videos
Population decline, also known as depopulation, is a reduction in a human population size. Earth's total human population continues to grow, as it has done throughout history, but projections suggest
An abandoned house in Yubari district, Hokkaido, an area which has suffered sharp population decline
Ukrainian refugees entering Romania, 5 March 2022
Thousands of abandoned villages are scattered across Russia.
Stamp depicting Russian soldier killed in Ukraine. The war in that country has further exacerbated Russia's demographic crisis.
Total fertility rate
Videos
The total fertility rate of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates through
Population decline
…accelerated to a peak of 2.1% annually during the mid-20th-century baby boom (1945–1968 period), but since then, due to the worldwide collapse of the total fertility rate, it has slowed to 0.9% as of 2023. The global growth rate in absolute numbers accelerated to a peak of 92.8 million in 1990, but has since slowed to…
Niger has the highest TFR in the world at 6.73, in 2023.