Form error message goes here. Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. For years, people concerned about falling birth rates have warned of the economic ...

A mother lulls her newborn baby at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado on April 1, 2025. Hyoung Chang—The Denver Post From Tokyo to Berlin, getting more women into the workforce, and into ...

A mother lulls her newborn baby at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado on April 1, 2025. Credit - Hyoung Chang—The Denver Post From Tokyo to Berlin, getting more women into the workforce, and ...

GRAND FORKS – North Dakota birth rates have declined 35% since 2016, a trend some say is caused by economic uncertainty, a shift in social norms and a post-oil boom lull. Unless residents start having ...

California’s birth rate has hit a record low, a historic “baby bust” dipping below the birth rate of 1906, when San Francisco was recovering from the great earthquake that destroyed most of the city.

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV has called for a "concerted effort to promote choices at all levels in favor of the family" amid falling birth rates. The American Pope’s recent plea to confront declining birth rates in ...

A total of 25 Chinese provinces will be distributing maternity leave payments directly to mothers by next month, as part of a broader effort to reverse the country’s flagging birth rate, officials ...

“Korea must have more children. The issue of low birth rates is one of the reasons causing a kind of stagnation in Korea.” Joel Mokyr, a professor at Northwestern University in the U.S. who jointly ...

South Korea’s population is collapsing faster than any other country on Earth. The birth rate has fallen so low that even replacing the current generation is mathematically impossible. This video ...

VALLETTA, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Malta announced tax cuts for parents of two or more children on Monday, in a government bid to counter its demographic decline. Finance Minister Clyde Caruana told ...

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 ...