By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow Fertility rates have fallen sharply and populations are ageing across most economies where the ...

There is no consensus on why fertility rates are plunging worldwide, in both rich and poor countries alike. Theories of modernization, with advancements in health, women’s status, and economic ...

Several current policies make being a parent harder than it needs to be, which could depress fertility, and are thus ripe for reform. Fertility is declining around the world and is now below the level ...

The fertility decline in the U.S. and around the world has prompted growing concern. Much of the focus has been on societal-level economic problems that could result from sub-replacement fertility.

Contemporary world population patterns are shaped by the “demographic transition” concept introduced to the field by the great demographer Frank Notestein several generations ago. That schema offers a ...

The higher fertility rates in emerging countries will contribute to larger workforces with more potential output, while developed countries with sub-replacement fertility rates, such as the United ...

And by 2100, almost all countries (97%) are expected to have fertility rates below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman, the same report concludes. This trend will not happen everywhere all ...

It may not be the first way we think of ourselves, but all of us alive today are children of the “world population explosion.” Thanks to sweeping mortality declines, human numbers leapt from about 1.6 ...

In the eastern hemisphere, Japan faces a similar problem. Japan’s fertility rate hit an all-time low of approximately 1.3 children per woman in 2005. Acknowledging the demographic and economic crisis ...

American women are choosing to have fewer babies and the result is that America's total fertility rate in 2020 has fallen to a record low of 1.64 births per 1,000 women between 15 and 44 years of age, ...