fertility

The number of deaths outpaced the number of births in France for the first time since the Second World War and ten years before the official French national statistics bureau had projected.

Communist China will reportedly enact a hefty tax on condoms beginning in January to boost its dismal birthrate, largely the result of its draconian “One Child Policy” that spanned from 1979 to 2015.

President Donald Trump and his administration have negotiated a deal with EMD Serono, a leading fertility drug manufacturer, to radically reduce the cost of in vitro fertilization drug prices.

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare reported on Sunday that a record 22,878 babies were born to foreign parents in 2024, accounting for over 3 percent of all newborns. 

Harvard economist Claudia Goldin opened the Fed’s Jackson Hole symposium with a paper linking low fertility in advanced economies to men who don’t do their share of housework.

A man accused of being a co-conspirator in the May terror attack on a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, has died in federal custody, according to authorities. 

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Tuesday released its annual “State of World Population Report.” According to the report, the world is experiencing a fertility crisis and most of the policies implemented to fight it are ineffective.

The world’s first “sperm race” was hosted in Los Angeles on Friday after a 17-year-old student and entrepreneur came up with the idea to highlight men’s health and male fertility.

As President Donald Trump is battling to end birthright citizenship, Chinese nationals are reportedly using the largely unregulated surrogacy industry in the United States — specifically California— to rent the wombs of American women to have babies and take them back to China, NewsNation reported. 

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that aims to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and reduce costs. 

President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is withdrawing proposed regulations that would have narrowed employers’ ability to opt out of covering birth control for their employees.

Several liberal women have gotten sterilized or plan to, blaming their decision to become infertile on Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election.

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

Actress-singer and star of Only Murders in the Building, Selena Gomez revealed in a recent interview she experienced intense grief on learning she would no longer be able to bear children.

President Donald Trump officially announced his position on abortion on Monday, ending months-long speculation about how he would handle the issue should he be elected in November.

The Republican-controlled Alabama House and Senate passed companion bills on Thursday that would shield in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics in the wake of the state Supreme Court decision ruling that frozen embryos are considered unborn children.

A Senate Republican blocked the quick passage of a Democrat-led bill on Wednesday that would have installed federal protections, not just for in vitro fertilization (IVF) but for all “assisted reproductive technology” as defined by the federal government.

Both Republicans and Democrats in Alabama are working to carve out exceptions for in vitro fertilization (IVF) after the state’s Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that frozen embryos are considered unborn children under state law.

Demographic decline was a big story around the world in 2023, as most industrialized nations wrestled with lower fertility rates while countries like South Korea and China slid into population crises.

The South Korean city of Seongnam held a mass blind dating event at a hotel on Sunday evening for the express purpose of helping more young people get married and have children to shore up South Korea’s collapsing birth rates.

A majority of Democrats say the trend of people having fewer children has a “positive impact” on the environment, according to a Pew Research Center survey.

China’s state-run National Business Daily reported Tuesday the nationwide fertility rate dropped to 1.09, a shockingly low number.

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.

A woman has become the first to give birth with a transplanted uterus outside of a clinical trial, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) announced on Monday.

A new study finds there’s a considerable impact of the level of education a woman’s own parents has on the total fertility rate.

The World Health Organization estimated that a staggering one in six people around the globe experiences infertility during their lives.

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

An unsettling majority of young American men are single, while most of their female counterparts are in a relationship.

As society has moved further toward nontraditional unions, new research shows traditional marriage is linked to higher fertility rates while cohabitation and relationship instability is linked to lower fertility.

The collapse in male fertility rates around the world is accelerating, according to journal Human Reproduction Update.

The United States needs more immigration to compensate for declining fertility, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said at a press conference Wednesday.

Men’s sperm count around the world has dropped by 62 percent in less than half a century, a new Israeli study has found.

China’s central government issued new “fertility-friendly” guidelines on Tuesday designed to increase the Chinese population, which is currently projected to contract sometime before 2025 following decades of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy, the Global Times reported.

Japan had a “record low” of 811,604 newborns last year, Kyodo News reported on Friday, noting that the data was merely the latest statistic highlighting Japan’s dire population woes.

A majority of women have remained childless in Britain past their thirtieth birthday for the first time in recorded history.

British fertility rates have fallen to the lowest level in recorded history, while the number of foreign-born mothers hit a record high.