COLUMN. The decline in the number of births should be seen in connection with the 'gender divergence' between increasingly progressive young women and increasingly conservative young men, observes ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — In a noisy market in a working class neighborhood in Santiago, Marisol Romero was selling bright balloons, little dolls and flowers to passers-by. She's in her 50s and comes from a ...

What many might perceive as a gradual shift is, in reality, a profound demographic transformation with far-reaching implications that could reshape economies, societies, and even our understanding of ...

There's one little statistic that seems to have gained a lot of attention recently: the birth rate. With pro-natalist ideas showing up in our culture and politics, Brittany wanted to know: why are ...

This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘China’s birth rate tumbles to historic lows’ ...

China's birth rate fell to a record low in 2025 as young people delayed marriage and children due to high costs, job ...

Amid growing evidence of slowing fertility rates in the United States, a new report contained a pair of surprising details from two divergent age groups: A growing number of women older than 40 are ...

The Trump administration is reportedly fielding ideas for how to increase the declining U.S. birth rate, a longtime priority of White House figures like Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk. Since ...

The Trump administration’s ideologues keep coming back to birth rates. The new National Security Strategy, released on Friday, declares that Europe is facing “the stark prospect of civilizational ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is one of many governments around the world trying to reverse the decline in birth rates, which will continue over the next 75 years, new data shows. The U.S.