Last month, the council's subcommittee on universities approved a draft report from the task force predicting that the number ...

Japan's population, which stands at about 125 million, is projected to plummet to 87 million by 2070. The fertility rate—the ...

Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and culture. Now, policymakers are working to boost birth rates.

Even birth rates in Latin America and Caribbean, where families are typically large, are shrinking. U.S. is well below ...

In the eastern hemisphere, Japan faces a similar problem. Japan’s fertility rate hit an all-time low of approximately 1.3 children per woman in 2005.

In Belarus, for example, the fertility rate in 1988 was at replacement level; it fell to an abysmal 1.22 only nine years later. But then it rebounded, all the way up to 1.73 by 2015.

The country's fertility rate—the average number of births per woman—fell to a record-low 1.2 last year, far below the 2.1 replacement rate needed to maintain the population.

With fertility rates dropping below replacement level, Kashmir may be headed toward the same demographic crisis Japan is ...

Much of the attention on the world's plunging birth rate is on East Asian countries like Japan and South Korea. But Latin ...

In the eastern hemisphere, Japan faces a similar problem. Japan’s fertility rate hit an all-time low of approximately 1.3 children per woman in 2005. Acknowledging the demographic and economic ...