Fertility rates (the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) have dropped below replacement rates of 2.1 ...

Birth rates in middle-income countries are also plummeting, putting their economic development at risk. Practically the only countries set to continue growing are desperately poor.

Futurologists predict in tomorrow's world, nations won't fight wars over oil, they'll compete over nurses, engineers, and ...

Australia’s birth rate fell to 1.7 in 2001, only to bounce back to 2.0 in 2008. France’s rate followed a similar trajectory during the same period, as did Italy’s and Sweden’s.

The world’s population is expected to start shrinking this century. Political demographer Jennifer Sciubba says that’s no ...

On any list of central bankers dying to get off this crazy thing called 2025, Japan’s Kazuo Ueda deserves a spot at the very ...

Even birth rates in Latin America and Caribbean, where families are typically large, are shrinking. U.S. is well below ...

While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been ...

This year will bring "another significant decline of the birth rate" for the majority of countries, new analysis shows.

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Elon Musk has issued his latest warning about the declining fertility rate, but also explained how humans can fix it.

Misnamed “family planning” programs and are a key cause for why America is facing a birth rate problem. They began under the Great Society.