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Chile’s National Institute of Statistics (INE) on Wednesday published data that showed the country’s fertility rate has fallen to the lowest level in its recorded history: just 0.97 children per woman.

The South Korean Ministry of Education revealed this week that over 4,000 schools have shut down nationwide between 1980 and March 2025, responding to the rapid collapse of the child population in the past generation.

Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued an address on Thursday in which he warned that Turkey was facing an impending “disaster” due to its rapidly declining birth rate, which has been under replacement fertility for nearly a decade.

Failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris — who has pushed climate alarmism for years and was endorsed by radical climate groups — claims young Americans are afraid to have children because of “climate anxiety.”

The fertility rate in the United States plunged to an all-time low in 2024 as more people put off marriage and having children.

The Chinese government issued a warning, the state-run Global Times reported on Monday, to its male citizens in Bangladesh discouraging the use of local matchmaking services or acceptance of offers to “buy” a wife — a growing threat to social stability as the nation’s marriage rate plummets and gender disparity skyrockets.

Members of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), which began its annual session this week, are considering urging couples to take fertility tests before getting married among other policies to boost the national birth rate, state media reported on Thursday.

South Korea’s birth rate rose in 2024 for the first time in nine years, as a steep demographic decline was halted by a surge in new marriages. Meanwhile, Japan hit its lowest birth rate ever, continuing nine straight years of population decline.

Cuba’s communist regime admitted over the weekend that there are fewer than 10 million Cubans left living in the country after the island nation lost more than 300,000 of its inhabitants in 2024 — a year that also marked the lowest birthrates recorded in Cuba in the past six decades.

In a conversation at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) with Canadian Professor Jordan Peterson, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage argued that a revival of “Judeo-Christian” values and “optimism” are needed to confront plunging birth rates. 

China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs released data on Monday that showed marriage applications declined by 20 percent last year.

China’s National Bureau of Statistics on Friday reported the population declined for the third straight year in 2024, even though there was a small and surprising increase in the number of births for the first time in seven years.

The birth rate in France fell to its lowest level last year since the end of the First World War, according to official figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE).

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that the number of babies born to British mothers has fallen to a record low, collapsing by 25 per cent over the past 15 years.

The survey results come after the CDC announced in April that the U.S. birthrate has dropped to an all-time low.

Chinese women are flooding regime-controlled social media with complaints that local Communist Party officials are making phone calls to harass them into having more children, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday.

The city government of Seoul announced on Monday that it will launch a 24-hour call center for residents who are struggling with intense feelings of loneliness and isolation. The need for such a service offers another glimpse at the cultural impact of demographic collapse.

The United States needs more migrants to replace the children that Americans are not producing, former President Bill Clinton told a press event.

“I have heard a lot of young girls saying that it is too expensive to have children and they may not want them, and I have said, ‘You will change your mind. You will want to be a mum,’” British supermodel Naomi Campbell said.

Very few supporters of President Joe Biden believe prioritizing marriage and having children is beneficial for society, polling found.

Conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered his officials to begin a “complete review” of all federal birth rate policies.

Pope Francis lamented the West’s continued demographic decline, insisting on Friday that fewer kids signals a lack of hope in the future.

Fewer Germans are getting married and having children, but the population continues to soar thanks to immigration.

The U.S. birth rate has dropped to an all-time low, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Fertility rates in the United States hit a record low in 2023, according to provisional data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday.

Seoul, South Korea – the capital of the nation with the world’s lowest fertility rate – launched a survey on Wednesday asking residents if they approved of an idea to pay 100 million won in cash (about $72,500) to parents for every baby their family welcomes.

The birth rate in England and Wales has fallen to a new low since records began, with the rate falling to just 1.49 per woman in 2022.

The collapse of fertility rates in China could lead to millions of teachers losing their jobs in the next decade, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday, as classroom sizes shrink and some neighborhoods find no use for smaller elementary schools at all.

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.

South Korea on Sunday announced more aggressive measures to stave off the worst population crisis in the world, boosting child care subsidies into a “monthly salary for parents” and raising the already sizable cash bonus for childbirth, plus more paid family leave and subsidized mortgages for the parents of newborn children.

Chinese censors on Wednesday quickly deleted an article in a maternity-related news service that leaked plummeting birth rate data for 2023, revealing China’s population crisis is even worse than the regime has previously admitted.

Cuba’s Communist Party approved changes to the nation’s health code that, once formally implemented, will allow euthanasia.

The fertility rate in the Netherlands continues its long-term downward trend as more couples decide to have no children at all.

Communist dictator Kim Jong-un cried while delivering remarks this week to North Korea’s “national conference of mothers,” urging women across the country to help with “stopping the declining birth rate” and reminding mothers of their government requirement to “become communist.”

Nestle will shutter or sell the Wyeth Nutrition baby formula factory in Askeaton, Ireland, due to collapsing birth rates in China.

The French birth rate has declined to such an extent that the birth-to-death ratio is now nearly equal, the lowest level since World War II.