Rather than an exploding overpopulation bomb, the world faces an economic and social implosion due to lacking supports to ...

The global birth rate is less than half what it was in the 1960s. See where birth rates are highest and lowest.

People power economic growth, but declining global birth rates are a bullish phenomenon. Yes, both statements are true. If declining birth rates foretold economic decline as Washington Post columnist ...

Britain is giving up on babies. Figures from the Office for National Statistics last week showed that the birth rate ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Birth rates among mothers in their 20s have declined, a new report from ...

The fall is astonishing. At its height, the global fertility rate hit 5.3 births per woman in 1963, but it has been in near-constant decline ever since. Sixty years on, it is now only around 2.2. In ...

The drop in U.S. birth rates is well known, as are the problems that demographic change will cause: closing schools, slower ...

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Office for National Statistics says the fertility rate in England and Wales is the lowest ever recorded ...

We talk a lot about the economic cost, but the human heartache caused by involuntary childlessness is incalculable ...

Twenty-seven-year-old Kelli Peters married her husband ten days before he passed away from a rare form of bone cancer, Ewing ...