The Chinese government on Monday released its latest round of dismal demographic data, revealing that birth rates have hit their lowest level since the Communist revolution of 1949, and the population is still declining despite years of expensive efforts to convince more couples to have children.
The British fertility rate fell to its lowest level on record in 2024 after falling for three straight years as the native public continues to delay or refrain from having children.
The municipal government of Beijing on Thursday rolled out the latest effort to reverse China’s demographic decline, a 15-step plan to create a more “birth-friendly society.”
The fertility rate in the United States plunged to an all-time low in 2024 as more people put off marriage and having children.
Statistics Korea, the official statistical agency of the South Korean government, released data from April on Wednesday that showed the biggest year-on-year increase in childbirths since 1991.
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.
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.
Statistics Korea, a government operation run by the South Korean Ministry of Economy and Finance, released data on Monday that showed the population rose by 0.2 percent in 2023.
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.
Japan, Singapore, and South Korea all posted record-low birth rates for 2023, providing the latest evidence that much of Asia is grappling with a severe demographic crisis that will lead to higher costs for social services and reduced manpower for industry in the near future.
A member of the influential Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference suggests lifting all restrictions on family size.
China’s National Bureau of Statistics produced its data for 2023 on Wednesday, revealing the population fell for the second year in a row and fertility rates are stuck at record lows.
China is increasing subsidies for fertility services, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), in its bid to arrest crashing birth rates.
South Korea’s demographic crisis is driven by the world’s lowest fertility rates, but there are problems on the other end of the life cycle as well.
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.
The county of Changshan in eastern China offers a “reward” of $140 for couples if the bride is 25 years old or younger.
The Chinese city of Xian on Tuesday observed the holiday of Qixi – essentially China’s Valentine’s Day – by peppering residents with text messages urging them to have more children to reverse the population crash initiated by the Communist Party’s brutal One Child Policy.
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.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday claimed birth rates have collapsed, putting China into a demographic death spiral, because “pedophobia” has been spread across the Internet in a sinister conspiracy to make young couples afraid of having children.
South Korean pediatricians are exiting the profession as birth rates decline, creating a hospital environment where few children are being born, but there still are not enough doctors to care for them.
Fewer than 3.7 million babies were delivered in the United States last year, keeping the nation consistently below replacement level as it has been since 2007, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) details in its provisional data.
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 World Health Organization estimated that a staggering one in six people around the globe experiences infertility during their lives.
A Swedish academic has expressed concern about Sweden’s demographic situation as the country’s birthrate hits a 20-year low, with young people far less likely to have children.
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.
South Korea recorded the world’s lowest fertility rate in 2021, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, noting that the development supports a current prediction by demographers that South Korea’s population of 51 million will more than halve by 2100.
China’s National Health Commission (NHC) told Reuters this week that ongoing Chinese coronavirus lockdowns nationwide have had a “clear impact on the marriage and childbirth arrangements of some people” within the country and have contributed to the nation’s plummeting fertility rate and shrinking population, the news agency reported on Tuesday.
India’s fertility rate decreased from 2019 to 2021 according to newly released data from India’s latest National Family Health Survey, Asian News International (ANI) reported on Saturday.
Kenya’s fertility rate declined over the past decade, particularly in urban areas of the country, Kenya’s the Star newspaper reported on Friday citing newly released data from the Kenyan government.
Despite Britons largely being confined to their homes, pregnancies fell to a 17-year low during the first year of coronavirus lockdowns.
Birth rates across nine Chinese provinces and autonomous regions decreased in 2021, the state-run Global Times reported on Wednesday.
The number of new marriages dropped year-on-year across two Chinese provinces in 2021, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday.
The Chinese Communist Party recently issued an edict directing family planning associations across China to “intervene in abortions among unmarried people and adolescents,” the state outlet Global Times reported on Friday.
A majority of women have remained childless in Britain past their thirtieth birthday for the first time in recorded history.
The number of women of childbearing age — between 15 and 49 years old — in China decreased in 2021 by 5 million, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Monday.
British fertility rates have fallen to the lowest level in recorded history, while the number of foreign-born mothers hit a record high.
Britain and other Western nations should welcome declining populations and ageing demographics as it will help them meet climate change goals, the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has argued.
