George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...

Births in Türkiye fell again in 2025, continuing a decline that has put NATO's youngest population on a course President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called a "demographic disaster." It’s a familiar ...

Women may hold up half the sky, as Chinese Communist Party founder Mao Zedong once famously declared, but these days they must do so while also holding a baby — or preferably three — in their arms at ...

Where are the babies? Social conservatives keep asking what’s happened as the U.S. fertility rate crashes to its lowest level ever. But the answer should be another question: Where are the fathers?

Where are the babies? Social conservatives keep asking what’s happened as the U.S. fertility rate crashes to its lowest level ever. But the answer should be another question: Where are the fathers?

Earlier this month, after the Heritage Foundation released a 168-page report detailing a comprehensive plan to reverse our nation’s declining birth rate, National Public Radio aired a story on the ...

A 13-year-old boy in Mississippi died in 2022 after accidentally shooting himself with an unsecured, loaded pistol. Mississippi recorded the highest firearm-related mortality rate in the nation in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study from the American Cancer Society is shedding light on cancer mortality rates among young people — and the one type of ...

*The CDC has released new data showing a continued drop in birth rates among Black women in the U.S. According to provisional data, the Black birth rate declined by 4% in 2024 alone. That puts it in ...

HOUSTON, Texas – Black women in Harris County are dying during and after pregnancy at higher rates than any other racial or ethnic group, according to a 2024 report from Harris County Public Health.

China’s birth rate has fallen to its lowest level since the Communist Party took power in 1949, according to recent government data reported by the BBC and other media outlets. Official figures ...