Clare Barkley of Ohio always pictured having a second baby. But watching the erosion of reproductive rights and fights over ...

Malta's fertility rate stands as the lowest in the European Union, at just 1.08. This matter has been a prominent topic of discussion for many years, as a country's birth rate being so low ...

High fertility strains public services and household resources. Yet managed properly, a falling birth rate could yield a ‘demographic dividend’ of working-age adults unburdened by dependents, powering ...

There’s one kind of prediction that does not capture the public’s imagination as often but is nevertheless instrumental in ...

The bright minds at McKinsey & Co. are arguing that declining birth rates mean that people need to work more hours for more ...

People are getting educated, and that changes perceptions about childbirth’ © Brian Otieno/FT As the decline in fertility rates across most continents has gathered pace — to a point where many ...

Like many modern women, you may have put off having children until your career was in order and you were more financially ...

Boredom, as I argued in a recent Substack post, is a uniquely modern experience, a functional emotion that alerts us to a ...

POPULATION aging is an inevitable and irreversible global demographic phenomenon, according to the United Nations Department ...

Pakistan's fertility rate has experienced a significant decline, according to the United Nations' World Fertility Report 2024. The country's fertility rate, which was recorded at 6 children per ...

Fidesz’s most radical policy has been to exempt women who have four or more children from income tax for life. All mothers ...