We are still in the season of prognostications about the year ahead. But I gave my forecasts for 2026 last week. Today I am ...

Birth rates are crashing worldwide—why is this happening, and can we reverse it? Birth rates are declining across the world, ...

Japan, already a world leader in pro-natal policy, must dramatically boost child allowances to make a difference, an analyst ...

Systemic change that offers a credible vision of the future is the only path to reversing the birth rate decline, experts ...

Condoms and ​contraceptive pills now incur value-added tax of ​13%, ⁠the standard rate for most consumer goods. The move ...

Much of the attention on the world's plunging birth rate is on East Asian countries like Japan and South Korea. But Latin American countries, like Chile, are also seeing a decline in fertility. Birth ...

Russia’s demographic decline, turbocharged by the war in Ukraine, has given birth to “one of the world’s most extreme ...

KELSEY PIPER: A lot of the way the economy is set up, institutions like Social Security, they were built when we had a growing population. And they do have a sort of assumption baked into them that ...

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Charles A. "Chuck" Donovan is president of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research and education arm of the Susan B. Anthony List. A few decades back, a Wall Street Journal editor named James ...

California’s birth rate has hit a record low, a historic “baby bust” in a state with the world’s fourth largest economy, dipping below the birth rate of 1906, when San Francisco was recovering from ...