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

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

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

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

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

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 national birth rate has hit a record low and is now at a critical level, with economic consequences for the future.

Putin has introduced bizarre new laws in Russia that will ban anything suggesting a child-free life is attractive. Laws that ...