In contemporary society, discussions increasingly focus on career advancement, secondary income opportunities, travel, and ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

Roughly two-thirds of the world’s population now lives in regions where total fertility rates, births expected per woman, are below the 2.1 threshold needed for natural population replacement, per the ...

South Korea had the world's lowest birth rate for at least eight consecutive years, from 2016 through 2023, with its rate falling for eight straight years to a record low of 0.72 in 2023, before ...

The country has reported its lowest birth rate since the end of World War II, with only 643,773 births registered across the ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago -- the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...

The Trump administration’s ideologues keep coming back to birth rates. The new National Security Strategy, released on Friday, declares that Europe is facing “the stark prospect of civilizational ...

There’s been a lot of talk about birth rates this year. President Donald Trump dubbed himself the “fertilization president” shortly after reentering the White House and declared, “We want more babies.

A better question is: Can we do more to make parenthood easier for people who want to have children?

The argument that declining birth rates will eventually relieve housing pressure is flawed, as it ignores the economic, ...