On the whole, female graduates in the US (and elsewhere) are both far more likely to marry than non-graduates and have been more likely to have children in wedlock. Thus, for college graduates, in ...

Fertility has fallen across almost the entire developed world, and in most OECD countries it now sits below the replacement ...

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The country has reported its lowest birth rate since the end of World War II, with only 643,773 births registered across the ...

Falling fertility rates typically get blamed on the women of the world. But a new study published by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says both men and women “face significant barriers to ...

The challenge is shared by most successful nations. Ultralow fertility is a byproduct of rapid development and elevated ...

People are having fewer children all over the world, affecting separate regions in different ways. Newsweek has mapped out which countries have the lowest and highest fertility rates to break down ...

Wealthy countries all over the world are struggling with historically low birth rates—a new study has looked at why this is the case and has a slightly different answer to what research has said ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written ...

NEW YORK — The fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with less than 1.6 kids per woman, new federal data released Thursday shows. The U.S. was once among only a few developed ...

As overall fertility falls globally, Latin American and Caribbean countries are experiencing fertility drops that are unexpected and have been hard to explain so far. Countries that typically had ...