In Greece, fewer babies means difficult decisions, especially on remote islands where low birth rates are forcing some schools to close and raising questions about the future of island culture.

The impact is especially pronounced in Japan, which the United Nations has classified as a " super-aged" society —meaning at ...

Live births and fertility rates are dropping across most regions in developed economies, with some emerging markets also starting to see the first signs of the same trend. Japan, for instance, is well ...

At first glance, you might think that, since older Americans tend to die more, rising deaths may be behind America’s falling ...

Here's a reality that is changing the planet: Births are declining across the globe as people opt for different parenting choices amid evolving family dynamics. From the U.S. to Singapore, the global ...

Greece and Turkey, two neighbors separated by the Aegean, are united by a shared threat: a falling birth rate and an aging ...

Authors: Leslie Root, University of Colorado Boulder; Karen Benjamin Guzzo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Shelley Clark, McGill University Pronatalism – the belief that low birth ...

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 ...

The United Nations Population Division has estimated that about 12 percent of North Koreans are aged 65 or older. The U.N.

America's average preterm birth rate has been worsening in recent years, going from 9.6 percent in 2014, to 10.5 percent in ...

During the pandemic, I came across a haunting series of photos depicting empty spaces around the world that normally bustle with life − streets, airports, subway stations, cafes, museums. Looking at ...

President Javier Milei (pictured in September at the United Nations) has expressed concern about the declining birth rate in Argentina, attributing it primarily to the legalization of abortion and ...