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The number of births in France has fallen to its lowest level since the Second World War in a grim indicator of Western demographic collapse.

Men must fight back against the political left’s anti-family agenda and the culture’s demonization of traditional masculinity by embracing biblical manhood and reclaiming their roles as “protectors and providers,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told Breitbart News on Sunday.

A study published Wednesday revealed that Seoul, South Korea, lost one in ten of its pediatric clinics in the last five years, a dramatic reduction largely attributed to the nation’s catastrophically low birth rate.

The communist Castro regime admitted this weekend that Cuba’s population is in steep decline, fueled by accelerated growth in the elderly population, low birth rates, and the biggest migrant crisis in the nation’s history.

The city’s Department of Public Health is looking to start the program to “help ease racial disparities in infant mortality rates.”

Remote work may boost marriage rates and encourage women who are already parents to have more children, a new paper found.

China’s weekend session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) is scheduled to consider various emergency measures to address declining birth rates and a looming demographic crisis.

While it had been claimed the spread of social media was a cause of sinking fertility rates, this is the first time the link has been proven.

Polls show a steady lead for the right in the September 25 Italy election, with pledges to support falling birthrates and tackle immigration.

Albanians have entered into the top ten most common ethnicities to give birth in Britain for the first time in recorded history.

Germany is experiencing population growth despite the proportion of people aged 15 to 25 having fallen to just one in ten nationwide.

Over one-fifth of births in Ireland in 2021 were to foreign mothers, statistics released by the country’s government have shown.

Conservative French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour has proposed giving a €10,000 “birth grant” for children born in rural French areas in an effort to increase French birth rates. The conservative writer and television pundit announced that he would be looking

ONS: 5.6 million migrants in ten years will boost Britain’s population despite more people dying than being born.

According to Statbel just half of the babies born in the country in 2020 were born to women of Belgian origin and Belgian nationality. 

Spain’s birthrate declined by over five per cent during 2020, further reducing the already low birthrate in the country, while the mortality rate jumped nearly 18 per cent.

Matteo Salvini said that the demographic problems facing Italy and other Western nations cannot be solved through mass migration

Germany has bucked years of decline with a sudden ten per cent surge in new children nine months after pubs and bars reopened in summer 2020.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the birth rate in the U.S. fell by four percent in 2020 — the largest yearly drop in five decades.

Britain risks “sleepwalking into a crisis” as the number of elderly women who are childless is set to triple in the coming years, official data has revealed.

Not only are couples having fewer children, but there is an increase in the number of people who never have children at all. 

Tony Abbott has said conservative governments should do more to help working, middle-class women to have more children because the current birth-rate for that demographic is a “real problem”.

The era of the single breadwinner able to support his household on a family wage appears to be truly finished in Britain, with Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures indicating that over 75 per cent of mothers now have to work.

Immigration to the United States is now driving nearly half of all population growth in the country instead of increased birth rates, the U.S. Census Bureau finds.

Norway’s statistical agency says it has recorded the lowest number of newborns since it started counting in the 19th century, with the country’s family minister acknowledging that it is a problem.

Two tourism companies in China announced that they will offer single women employees over age 30 an eight-day “dating leave” for the lunar new year next month, the South China Morning Post reported Monday.

Soaring birth rates in developing nations are fuelling a global baby boom while women in dozens of richer countries aren’t producing enough children to maintain population levels there, according to figures released Friday.

Chinese state media noted on Wednesday that at least one province in the country is considering offering financial rewards to couples to incentivize them to have children, following an unsuccessful campaign to increase the country’s birth rate that began with a loosening of the previous one-child policy.

The number of childbirths in Germany has declined for years but a recent report has shown a rebound as migrant women accounted for almost one in four mothers in the country in 2016.

The Swedish medical research university-hospital Karolinska has created a video to educate new and expecting mothers but has had to make versions in Arabic and Somalian as midwives say there has been a sharp rise in births to mothers who do not speak Swedish.

Russia’s demographic crisis was put in stark terms by Ilan Berman in a Moscow Times editorial on Tuesday, as he quoted a report from Russia’s statistics agency that spoke of “extinction.”

TEL AVIV — An Egyptian Member of Parliament has demanded that couples’ engagement periods be regulated by law before the wedding and that couples who decide to cancel the engagement without proper justification be punished.

According to China’s state-run Xinhua news agency, hospitals have been overwhelmed by a surge of babies following the end of the nation’s one-child population-control policy.

Economist Nicholas Eberstadt lays out a bleak future in an important essay just published in The Wall Street Journal. Eberstadt makes the case that selfishness, as evidenced by the unwillingness of people to get married in the first place and stay married in the second, is setting humanity on an unknown and potentially dangerous course.