One can’t move the male parent. One has to find one that commits. That’s the mismatch issue. Harvard economist and 2023 Nobel ...

Declining birth rates worldwide are causing concern, but the reasons behind this trend remain unclear. Is it housing costs, ...

What Falling Global Birth Rates Really Mean for the Future Steep population declines in most countries are expected to have negative effects over the next several generations, but adaptation is ...

Canada's birth rate in 2025 was at 9.94 per cent, which currently sits almost three times lower than what it was in the 1950s ...

Perhaps the most profound implication of population decline lies in how we measure societal success. For millennia, growth served as the primary metric. A larger population meant more workers, more ...

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 ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...

For decades, U.S. marriage rates have been on the decline while the average age at which Americans have children has risen. Alongside this, birth rates have dropped — a phenomenon the Health and Human ...