Newsweek spoke to several experts about what positive cultural shifts the birth rate decline is illustrative of.

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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 ...

SEOUL — South Korea is so worried that women are not having enough babies that a slight increase in the birth rate last year ranks as a major triumph for the nation. South Korea’s birth rate rising ...

Kolkata: Bengal's urban birth rate at 11 live births per 1,000 people is the lowest among bigger states in the country while ...

The enrollment cliff has long loomed in the minds of higher education leaders anticipating that a sharp decline in the number of incoming students starting around 2025 could spell disaster for their ...

Whether it’s dating apps, doom-scrolling, delayed rites of passage, lofty living expenses or straying from pro-family values, Americans are having fewer babies — and they’re not the only ones falling ...

China's ongoing efforts to raise its birth rate have seemingly contributed to a surge in New Zealand's top-performing stock. The a2 Milk Company, a major New Zealand dairy producer whose products are ...