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Minorities now make up about 35% of the country's population, and about 57% of the population in California. Meanwhile, the white population continues to decline.

Across the nation, the number of minorities continues to rise and the white population continues to decline, according to U.S.

For years, China curbed its once-explosive population growth with a widely hated one-child limit that at its peak led to forced ...

Many of the states in the South and West that boasted country's highest growth rates are now seeing dramatic slowdown in population numbers.

Travel + Leisure magazine ranked U.S. cities on their culture, population, shopping, restaurants, nightlife, airports and more.

The world's population is forecast to hit 7 billion next year, the vast majority of its growth coming in developing and, in many cases, the poorest nations, a report released Wednesday said.

The number of centenarians already has jumped from an estimated few thousand in 1950 to more than 340,000 worldwide today, with the highest concentrations in the U.S. and Japan, according to the latest Census Bureau figures.