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.
The UK is facing a “baby shortage” that could lead to economic stagnation, with fertility rates dropping to nearly half those seen after WW2.
The South China Morning Post on Thursday quoted Chinese biologists, maternity doctors, and political advisers saying that Chinese infertility rates increased much faster than expected over the past decade, making it harder to pull out of the demographic crisis that was caused in part by China’s draconian “One Child Policy” population controls.
The population of South Korea fell for the first time in the country’s history in 2020, according to census data released on Sunday.
The government of Singapore announced a special one-time “baby bonus” this week, in addition to an existing $10,000 package of benefits for new parents, to encourage more families to have children in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Not only are couples having fewer children, but there is an increase in the number of people who never have children at all.
The fertility rate for under 30s women fell to the lowest level since 1938, with nearly one-third of babies being born to foreign-born mums.
First world countries must respond to a “jaw-dropping” crash in fertility by totally opening their borders to unlimited mass migration, according to “experts” interviewed by the BBC.
Forty-two states in the nation and Washington, DC, continue to see their birth rates decline with no plans among lawmakers to financially incentivize Americans to have more children.
The United States’ birth rate has continued to decline for the fourth consecutive year, newly released federal data reveals.
Deaths of British-born people outstripped deaths to British born mothers for only the third time since records began in 1838.
The population of Greece is dropping at a rate that has analysts worried about the country’s future as the fertility rate is well below replacement levels and significant brain drain exists.
A new report from the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) says 40 percent of all births in the United States occur outside of marriage, an increase from ten percent in 1970.
Despite more deaths than births taking place in Europe last year, the continent’s population swelled by more than a million in 2017 thanks to immigration.
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.
