The U.S. Census Bureau released new population projections this month forecasting that the American fertility rate (the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) will drop to 1.55 by ...

The world is changing in ways few people saw coming. Right now, across continents and cultures, something extraordinary is ...

President Donald Trump, a father of five who dubbed himself the “fertilization president” during Women’s History Month, has reportedly begun to float potential incentives to bring up the U.S. 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 ...

While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Pronatalism—the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed—is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...

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 ...

Cemalettin Şahin, the dean of the National Defense University's Naval Academy, said on Tuesday, according to the outlet: "Türkiye is short of the human capital required to harvest its own hazelnuts, ...

European governments worried about population decline often focus on policies to encourage people to have more children.

The country’s fertility rate was 1.4 births per woman in 2023, according to the most recent UN statistics. That’s well below ...

Although Pakistan’s population growth rate has slowed to 1.82 per cent annually, the country is still adding millions of people each year. The report notes that this pace, while lower than previous ...