Fertility decline is a global trend but particularly a concern in the Western Pacific region. Since 2021, the total fertility rates in many parts of Asia have already fallen below 2.1 per woman, the ...

The island's total fertility rate for 2025 is projected to have fallen below 0.8, the lowest worldwide. Read more at ...

South Korea is facing a demographic catastrophe. With a birth rate of 0.72 — the lowest in the world — the country is on track to halve its population by the end of the century. Seoul, where housing ...

Show more Show less China's birth rate could fall from 1.4 billion today to around 800 million by 2100, the United Nations says Chinese couples say high child-rearing costs and career worries are ...

Preterm birth rates rose from 2011 to 2021 in households with income below the federal poverty level. Black mothers across all income brackets had higher preterm birth rates compared with white ...

There’s been a lot of talk about birth rates this year. President Donald Trump dubbed himself the “fertilization president” shortly after reentering the White House and declared, “We want more babies.

Russia’s demographic decline, turbocharged by the war in Ukraine, has given birth to “one of the world’s most extreme natalism campaigns – and one of the weirdest”, said The Atlantic. The country’s ...

Although the U.S. birth rate is on the decline, the number of women having babies in one age group has increased. Those new mothers are 40 and older. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an ...

It’s a taxing time for sweethearts in China. After a 30-year exemption, the country is slapping a 13% sales tax on condoms, birth control pills and devices, hoping to boost its declining birth rates ...

The Trump administration’s ideologues keep coming back to birth rates. The new National Security Strategy, released on Friday, declares that Europe is facing “the stark prospect of civilizational ...

Why is this good news? Because it shows that when women have the freedom to work and the flexibility, raising a family while pursuing a career need not be an either/or proposition. In fact, it can ...

The newest March of Dimes report gives the US a D+ rating on preterm birth rates. The Conversation — Seven years ago, at 30 weeks into a seemingly low-risk pregnancy, I unexpectedly began to bleed.