Introduction Child stunting, a measure of malnutrition, is a major global health challenge affecting 148.1 million children in 2022. Global stunting rates have declined from 47.2% in 1985 to 22.3% in ...

Teen pregnancy remains one of the most pressing challenges facing young women around the world. While the issue affects ...

China’s birth rate has hit a historic low – deepening fears of a major economic shock in the decades to come as the country’s ...

Asking what can be done to raise birth rates, then, is the wrong question. Demographic research consistently shows that birth ...

This video looks at birth rates dipping and populations shrinking across nations. When the numbers fall, futures change for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A new report by the Congressional Budget Office shows that, absent immigration, America’s population will begin to shrink by 2030. As we approach the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding, this ...

*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 ...

BANGKOK (AP) — How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? What climate change means for Greenland’s traditional Inuit lifestyle and the ...

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 ...