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The United States fertility rate is now at an all-time low in the country’s history, dropping by half of what the fertility rate was in the 1950s.

The United States birth rate has been cut in half since the 1950’s, with the country’s fertility expected to remain below replacement level into the next century.

The number of white American deaths exceeds the number of white American births for the first time in United States history, a new analysis finds.

A new study suggests that the birth rate is collapsing in the San Francisco Bay Area, partly due to high housing prices, as women are delaying childbirth until they can afford living space in which to raise children.

The U.S. birthrate hit a historic low in 2017, well below replacement levels, a phenomenon that Vox is touting as “a sign of progress.”

NBC News recently published an opinion piece claiming that for those that want to save the planet, it is their moral imperative to not have children.

A new report in the Los Angeles Daily News details the many dangers that California’s record-low birthrate holds for a state where there is constant political pressure to expand welfare spending, and where the cost of living continues to outpace inflation.

A new report from the Italian government confirms that the Italian birthrate continues to drop and, despite record high immigration, the population is also falling.

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) caused a firestorm of controversy with his Tweet of praise for Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

California’s birth rate fell in 2016 to its lowest level in history in 2016, according to a new report by the California Department of Finance.

Italy continues to suffer from a steadily declining birthrate, especially among native Italians, with live births falling by nearly 20,000 in 2015.

In a melancholy companion piece to the announcement that America’s mortality rate is rising, the Wall Street Journal reports that fewer Americans in 2015 gave birth to new life.

Japan’s latest census figures confirm that the population has declined by nearly a million people, the first such decline in nearly a century.

With few exceptions Europe has seen a declining fertility rate across the continent in recent years, but the United Kingdom has found itself defying that trend and in fact witnessing a significant rise in the average number of births per woman.

New migrants to Scotland are set to outstrip the number of babies born within the country by nine to one over the next ten years, according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Overall, the UK’s population is

North Korea has banned abortion and birth control as a means to remedy its rapidly falling birth rate.

A buried item in the Office for National Statistics data dump today reveals that UK-born women are the least likely to give birth while married. In 2014, the ONS reveals, “a much higher proportion of births to non UK-born women

Japanese health officials are attempting to deal with a growing problem—a million young adults, mostly men, have locked themselves in their bedrooms and are refusing to come out. This condition, called “hikikomori” by Japanese health professionals, is deeply troubling Japanese leaders.

A report from the Urban Institute has some disturbing implications for the future of the United States, asserting that birth rates among women 20 to 29 years old between 2007 and 2012 reached historic lows.

The consumption of breakfast cereal has plunged; Kellogg, which makes Frosted Flakes, Rice Krispies, Froot Loops, and Special K, saw its sales of cereal drop 8 percent this quarter, according to Devin Leonard of Bloomberg.

Despite the positives of cheaper oil, a weaker yen currency, and zero interest rates, Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index plunged -3.02% in overnight trading. Over the last 25 years, Japan has become the world’s most indebted nation and its stock market has lost 70.4% of value as the nation is literally beginning to die out in a demographic implosion.

Japan as a society may be on something of an irreversible death spiral. Is banning abortion the answer? An article in the Washington Post notes that some have wondered whether this could help. More than a quarter century ago, Japan became