For starters, this isn’t new. Fertility rates have been declining for nearly 20 years in the U.S., and we haven’t been above ...

The U.S. fertility rate — the average number of children each woman gives birth to — fell 22% between 1990 and 2023, ...

Buried in the Donald Trump administration’s recent avalanche of executive orders in the United States was a starkly revealing ...

Many Americans say they want more kids, but can't afford them because of steep childcare and household expenses.

Turning the tables, Bulgaria overtook France to become the country with the highest fertility rate in the EU, reaching 1.81 ...

Spain is struggling with a fertility rate (the average number of births per woman) of 1.4, according to Macrotrends—in developed countries, an average of 2.1 live births per woman is considered the ...

The government attributes the reversal to a shift in perceptions surrounding family institutions among people of procreating ...

South Korea has one of the world's most rapidly shrinking and aging societies. Now, for the first time in nine years, the ...

If fertility rates remain low, Vietnam will face a shrinking workforce and aging population. The government is considering ...

Singapore's total fertility rate remained at its historic low of 0.97 in 2024, despite it being the Year of the Dragon.