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The United States could achieve a first in 2025. The population might shrink for the first time in the nation’s history.

While the South grew the most in absolute numbers of rural population, the largest percentage growth was in the Interior Northwest, made up of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. A biker rides along the Big ...

Immigration has had such a strong impact on American demographics that it is helping counteract the nation's declining birth rates, new data has revealed. Birth rates across the US have steadily ...

The U.S. population is expected to continue rising in the next three decades, though its growth pace will inevitably slow and will increasingly be supported by the number of migrants arriving in the ...

Cairo, a town at the southern tip of Illinois founded in the early 19th century, was given that name because it was expected to grow into a huge metropolis. Located at the confluence of the ...

A new projection reckons that this year, for the first time in history, the number of Americans could decline. That marks a sobering development for anyone concerned about the future of the republic.

Among America’s various troubling addictions, one that has particularly worrisome consequences for the country is its addiction to population growth. Population growth advocates warn of a pending ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. We will not know with certainty for some time whether America has hit ...

Thousands of people moved to rural America last year, causing the fourth year of continual growth in rural areas, according to a Daily Yonder analysis of 2024 Census estimates. Nonmetropolitan, or ...