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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 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.

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.

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.