The country's statistics ministry cited the COVID pandemic as a driver of the baby bump, with couples delaying marriage ...

They found that after the guidelines were implemented, the multiple birth rate significantly decreased from 15.4% to 7.1% ...

"South India is witnessing an aging problem. If you give birth to more than two children.... [it will be] for the nation, for ...

A leading economist argues women ultimately won't be encouraged to have children because of financial incentives and instead ...

Two common treatments for advanced stage endometriosis were associated with negative reproductive outcomes for in vitro ...

Neither of the two competing, long-debated explanations about birth rate declines may be entirely accurate. There could be big implications for policy and programs related to family planning for many ...

Ukraine is suffering from more than a Russian invasion. Births have plummeted. But many families with help from the ...

Greater total state social expenditures were associated with lower rates of preterm birth, with an adjusted prevalence ratio ...

Birth rates in Germany had already begun to decline in 2015, but recent events, including Covid-19 and the Ukraine war, have ...

Ukraine's population has shrunk by more than 10 million since Vladimir Putin widened Russia 's invasion more than two years ...

The Japanese government sees the next several years as the country’s last chance to reverse a worrisome decline in the birth rate. Last year saw record low births in the country. And Japan is already ...

She admits some of her ideas about how the declining birth rate should be handled might conflict with liberal progressives, as well as pronatalist conservatives. "If being politically conservative ...