“This finding came as a surprise to much of the demographic community,” said paper author and demographer Guillaume Marois.

Turkey’s total fertility rate fell from 2.11 to 1.51 between 2013 and 2023. Beyond long-term structural and cultural changes, ...

People are having fewer children all over the world, affecting separate regions in different ways. Newsweek has mapped out which countries have the lowest and highest fertility rates to break down ...

The total fertility rate for the United States in 2017 continued to dip below what's needed for the population to replace itself, according to a new report from the National Center for Health ...

Four years of war have discouraged Ukrainian and Russian women from having children, and that could impact their economies in ...

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...

President Donald Trump, a father of five who dubbed himself the "fertilization president" during Women's History Month, has reportedly begun to float potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth ...

Letting people work from home would be the most effective and cheapest way to boost Britain’s record-low birth rate, a new ...

Learn more about why the human population seems to be in decline and what that could mean for the future.