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 ...

Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has stopped a study funded by the Trump administration aiming to evaluate side effects of the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, including any ...

The demographic drop-off in public schools has led to a steep rise in the cost of educating Vermont’s children and, in turn, higher property taxes, prompting state leaders to push for reform.

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 ...

Another reader felt that the biggest benefits of a falling human population will be to the planet itself: “Less pollution, less deforestation, less mass extinctions of other species, etc., etc.

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 ...

*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 ...