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

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

Places in Utah, Colorado and Nevada are among those that have seen the starkest drops in their under-5 shares of the ...

From South Korea to Lithuania, discover the five OECD countries where fertility rates are sharply decreasing compared to 1950 ...

In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying less about overpopulation and more about depopulation. Comparing it to ...

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 ...

The US birth rate grew by 1% in 2024, according to a new CDC report. Moms in their early 40s and late 30s experienced the biggest increases in births. Meanwhile, births declined the most among teens ...

Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax ...

Contraceptives are now subject to a 13 percent value-added tax, while services related to childcare and marriage are exempt.

This week, correspondent Jon Wertheim reported from Japan, the land of declining sons and daughters. Over the last 15 years, the East Asian country has seen its population decline, amid low birth ...