From the cost of childcare to the housing crisis, there’s no shortage of explanations for the dramatic global fall in the number of babies being born. These analyses, though, are all missing something ...

The United States, once an outlier among industrialized countries with respect to its high birth rate, has caught up with the low fertility trend. As birth rates decline even among its large immigrant ...

Euronews Health takes a closer look at declining fertility rates across Europe. Experts point to multifaceted reasons behind ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s been a lot of talk about birth rates this year. President Donald Trump dubbed himself the “fertilization president” ...

More foreigners becoming PRs and citizens can support demand for private homes Read more at The Business Times.

Paul Ehrlich, the celebrity bug scientist-turned-environmentalist who wrote a tract against babymaking called The Population Bomb, was disastrously wrong and never really admitted it. He spent his ...

As a demographer who studies American childbearing decision-making and behaviors, I’m increasingly being pulled into the near-constant discourse on how to raise birth rates, spurred by the record low ...

These choices are the result of options largely unavailable to women before the second world war. In most countries, they are even more recent. They are one of the reasons why, as a 2024 OECD report ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a demographer who studies American childbearing decision-making and behaviors, I’m increasingly being pulled into the ...