Although this topic is somewhat distant from environmental issues, a notable perspective on the sharp decline in birth rates ...

From the cost of childcare to the housing crisis, there’s no shortage of explanations for the dramatic global fall in the number of babies being born. These analyses, though, are all missing something ...

In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying ...

In contemporary society, discussions increasingly focus on career advancement, secondary income opportunities, travel, and rising living expenses rather than on family planning or child-rearing.

What Falling Global Birth Rates Really Mean for the Future Steep population declines in most countries are expected to have negative effects over the next several generations, but adaptation is ...

Thai filmmaker Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit is bringing his most personal project yet to the Venice Film Festival‘s Horizons section with “Human Resource,” a contemplative drama that tackles the global ...

In 1970, a woman in Mexico might have expected to have seven children, on average. By 2014, that figure had fallen to around two. As of 2023, it was just 1.6. That means that the population is no ...