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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

The fertility rate has plummeted to 1.10, far below the replacement rate of 2.1. Women are delaying marriage and having ...

Countries must act now to keep slowing population growth from wreaking havoc on their long-term economic prospects, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said in an annual report on ...