Global fertility decline has made reproduction a site of reactionary family policies and moralized childlessness. But a healthy society would let people choose to have children or not without turning ...

Experts are calling it a human catastrophe that could trigger an economic shock for generations to come.

The number of babies born in Japan to Japanese nationals in 2025 fell to a record low of 671,236, while the country's total fertility rate -- the average number of children a woman is estimated to have in her lifetime -- also dropped to a new low, government data showed…

Chile has recorded a historic decline in births, with the birth rate falling 46.9% over the past 32 years and dropping below one child per woman.

Public health professors parse the evidence surrounding falling U.S. birth rates.

According to the latest population projections from Eurostat, the EU population is expected to decline by 11.7% between 2025 and 2100. This translates to a predicted decrease of 53.0 million people in...

The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and new federal data shows that another drop last year brought the rate down to the lowest on record.

As the US birthrate has declined dramatically, schools are becoming emptier and districts are getting less public funding

An anthropologist delves beyond simplistic portrayals of the anti-natalist movement to understand what motivates its adherents.

An increasingly vocal group says having children is at best selfish and at worst a moral crime. Cosmic thapa meets the antinatalists

We have to start counting from 1 again.

A sharp drop in net immigration has led to a slowdown in U.S. population growth. The Census Bureau says the population grew only about half as fast in the year ending last June as it did the previous ...

Beijing has been trying hard to encourage more young people to marry and have children.

Taiwan has overtaken South Korea after a decade of declining births.

Demographic crisis spurs lawmakers to take increasingly desperate measures

The world's population map is about to flip.

Elon Musk believes the collapsing birth rate is humanity's biggest danger. But antinatalists argue having kids is little more than a procreational Ponzi scheme, and the risks are real.

David Benatar’s ‘asymmetry argument’ suggests that, in virtually all cases, it’s wrong to create new life. This article discusses his antinatalist position, as well as common arguments against it.

Society has come a long way in making space for maternal ambivalence and the childfree movement, but those frameworks ask whether we want to have children, not whether we should

A world with fewer people would not be all bad

How should we be thinking about population decline? In episode one of a two-part series, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dean Spears, assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin, ...

The country recorded only one-third as many births last year as it did 30 years earlier, the report shows.

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Chilean families are having only one child on average. U.S. birthrates are also dropping but it's unclear whether the U.S. will follow into the growing group of "very low" birthrate countries.

New federal data shows the fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with less than 1.6 kids per woman.

The number of children born to mothers in Utah has plummeted in recent years, declining faster than in any other state, according to a study by Value Penguin.T

The total fertility rate is a small number with big consequences.It measures how many babies, on average, each woman will have over her lifetime. And for a population to remain stable - flat, no growt...

It's a complex world and there are many reasons to question parenthood.

The high school class of 2025 is the largest in American history, but it may hold the record forever.

Number of children born in 2024 already worse than median forecast for 2039