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 declining birth rate has been a major topic of discussion, with governments all over the world trying to find ways to reverse it. There is a constantly evolving discussion about the causes of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unfortunately for demographers, birth rates are hard to predict far into the future. gremlin/E+ via Getty Images Pronatalism – the ...

The U.S. birth rate remained near record lows in 2024, further illustrating that the nation is at risk of a shrinking population. According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The American population is becoming older, with the proportion of baby boomers increasing while birth rates are declining, according to the newly released Vintage 2024 Population Estimates by the U.S.

The number of births in China, which has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates, fell by 17 percent in 2025.

South Korea has seen births rise for two consecutive years, but will the trend hold?

Fewer Alaska babies are being born and more Alaskans are dying, causing the state’s natural population increase margin to ...

"Low birth rates and an ageing population will profoundly reshape our nation, our society and our economy in the years ahead, ...

One in five of its citizens is 65 or older, up from one in eight 10 years ago, DPM Gan warns Read more at The Business Times.