The 10 countries with the highest birth rates — and the 10 with the lowest

The global birth rate is less than half what it was in the 1960s. See where birth rates are highest and lowest.

Falling birth rates are an existential threat – yet the political class is silent

Britain is giving up on babies. Figures from the Office for National Statistics last week showed that the birth rate ...

Birth rates are declining in most of the world, including Australia. Here’s why that really matters

Rather than an exploding overpopulation bomb, the world faces an economic and social implosion due to lacking supports to ...
MercoPressOpinion

The irreversible smart phones and world’s dropping birth rates

By Gwynne Dyer - Smart phones seem to be directly linked to a worldwide crash in the birth rate. It is “quite plausible that ...
abc7NY

Birth rates in the US increased for first time since 2014: CDC finds

The number of births increased in the United States for the first time in seven years, according to a new federal report. Provisional data published Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

A suspicious decline in birth rates points to a new culprit

The drop in U.S. birth rates is well known, as are the problems that demographic change will cause: closing schools, slower ...

The reasons behind the birth rate decline

Office for National Statistics says the fertility rate in England and Wales is the lowest ever recorded ...
Opinion

The Smartphone Theory of Birth Rate Decline Doesn't Hold Up

Just when you think smartphone panic can't get any more dumb, it always does. Case in point: People are insisting that phones are why people worldwide are having fewer kids. There's one very simple, ...
Independent.ie

Young people blame housing and cost-of-living crises as birth rate drops 18pc in past decade

From 2015 to 2025, Ireland’s registered births fell almost 18pc and the fertility rate dropped below the replacement level ...