fertility

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 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.

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 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.

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.

Climate change could make penises smaller but it’s OK because you too can learn to live with a smaller penis.

The Iranian regime, facing one of the steepest drops in fertility in the world, rolled out a government-approved matchmaking app for smartphones this week. 

A German study suggests that the Chinese coronavirus may inflict long-term on male fertility, with sperm quality significantly impacted over a period of 60 days.

A baby who was born after spending more than 27 years as a frozen embryo has set a new record for the longest frozen embryo to come to birth.

A California woman is suing a fertility doctor in Glen Allen, Virginia, for fathering two of her children without her permission.

Britain risks “sleepwalking into a crisis” as the number of elderly women who are childless is set to triple in the coming years, official data has revealed.

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.

Total fertility has fallen to the lowest level ever in records that date back to 1909.

An article published Thursday on the website of the government of Hubei, the Chinese province at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak, claimed that the virus could theoretically damage male fertility. The article was removed without explanation a few hours later.

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. 

Research has found a link between interest rates and fertility, with homeowners more likely to have children when rates fall. 

A doctor in Corvallis, Oregon, is suing a fertility clinic for allegedly using his sperm to conceive 17 kids that he did not know about. 

The birth rate in England and Wales has fallen again and is now at the lowest level since records began, yet the population of the United Kingdom continues to rise, underlining the massive impact immigration continues to have on the nation.

Pope Francis had strong words for couples who choose not to have children, saying Tuesday that their self-imposed barrenness was at the root of the demographic winter plaguing the West.

A survey has revealed that 44 per cent of British women aged 18 to 24 said they would consider freezing their eggs in the future, while a quarter of those in that age group also admit to being concerned about their fertility.

An academic has hailed mass migration and the coming artificial intelligence revolution as reasons not to fear plummeting fertility rates in Western countries, wherein most it has long stood below replacement rate. 

Since 2013, there has been a 70 per cent increase in Swedish men seeking voluntary vasectomies, according to a report.

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.

Contents: China ends two-child policy, but considers a ‘wacky’ three-child policy; China evaluates the failure of the two-child policy; China may adopt a ‘wacky’ policy with a ‘reproduction fund’