With rare exceptions, developed nations are falling short of the replacement-level fertility (2.1 births per woman) necessary to maintain populations. The ramifications are significant. For example, ...

The phenomenon of falling birth rates is due to factors far beyond the mere cost of living, and state-funded benefits for ...

President Donald Trump, a father of five who dubbed himself the “fertilization president” during Women’s History Month, has reportedly begun to float potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth ...

President Donald Trump and Congress have offered tax credits and proposed legislation to tackle declining birth rates in the U.S., but according to polling, Americans don't consider the issue to be a ...

Governments all over the world are trying to reverse the birth rate decline, with almost every country on the planet facing the challenges that may come with fewer babies being born. A major issue is ...

SEOUL — South Korea is so worried that women are not having enough babies that a slight increase in the birth rate last year ranks as a major triumph for the nation. South Korea’s birth rate rising ...

Countries all over the world are facing declining birth rates, sparking fears there will one day be more elderly people than working-age people to support them. For example, in the United States, the ...

Pronatalism—the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed—is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...

Kayla Kosuga (@kaylakosuga), a 24-year-old living in Florida, recently went viral for explaining how much it cost to give birth to her most recent child. The video has been viewed over 18 million ...

The enrollment cliff has long loomed in the minds of higher education leaders anticipating that a sharp decline in the number of incoming students starting around 2025 could spell disaster for their ...