From the cost of childcare to the housing crisis, there’s no shortage of explanations for the dramatic global fall in the number of babies being born. These analyses, though, are all missing something ...

But his paper also reveals that the housing market’s failure to provide three-bedroom units is a massive driver of our ...

“This finding came as a surprise to much of the demographic community,” said paper author and demographer Guillaume Marois.

Millions of people struggle to become pregnant in the U.S. And in 2024, fertility rates reached a new low, according to CDC ...

Everyone knows that Canada’s total fertility rate – the number of births a woman will have over her lifetime – has been dropping steadily for a long time. According to Database Earth, it has fallen to ...

Four years of war have discouraged Ukrainian and Russian women from having children, and that could impact their economies in ...

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 ...

SEOUL - South Korea's birth rate rose for a second straight year in 2025, government data showed on Wednesday (Feb 25), in a ...

Letting people work from home would be the most effective and cheapest way to boost Britain’s record-low birth rate, a new ...

A recent study by the Philippines Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) revealed that Philippine fertility rates have ...