Despite the optimism surrounding the potential dividends from India’s youth population, demographic ageing is underway. All but five of India’s 28 states have fertility rates below replacement levels, ...

It's often due to money concerns. Experts weigh in on the financial and emotional implications, as well as the positives.

A mother holds her daughter as she walks in Ankara, Trkiye, on March 24, 2025. (Mustafa Kaya/Handout via Xinhua) by Burak ...

Dr Parkash Chand Daroch, Director of Health Services, noted that Himachal’s TFR has fallen to 1.47, well below the ...

New marriages in China reportedly plummeted by one-fifth last year, implying that the official number of births will likely fall from 9.54 million in 2024 to 7.3- 7.8 million in 2025. Thus, while ...

The trend among Chinese women of postponing or eschewing marriage will undermine Beijing’s efforts to boost falling birth rates, says Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Moreover, China’s fertility rate in 2025 is expected to fall to 0.9 births per woman (2.1 is the standard replacement level), just half of what officials predicted in 2016. So alarming is this ...

Today, 85% of children with cancer survive to adulthood and about 1 in 3 are left infertile from chemotherapy or radiation.

Kerala's rapidly declining birth rate is reshaping its demographics, raising concerns over an aging population, workforce ...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Sen. Rick Santorum, and other pro-family conservatives are calling on ...

For the first time in recorded U.S. history, the Black fertility rate has dropped below the White fertility rate. Yep, you ...

Because of low birth rates, the world’s population is on the way to declining for the first time in human history.