Every part of that appears to be wrong. In reality, Thailand’s reported birth rate last year was 0.98, and preliminary 2025 data show the decline continuing. In a country the size of Thailand, the ...

Fertility rates (the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) have dropped below replacement rates of 2.1 ...

Declining birth rates around the world may pose new challenges for humanity. A new book on the topic by Elon Musk–funded ...

The following example uses the SAS data set Poverty created in the section. The data, from Rouncefield (1995), are birth rates, death rates, and infant death rates for 97 countries. Six cluster ...

Birth rates are plummeting worldwide - but it's not because people don't want kids anymore "Lack of choice, not desire" is reason for global fertility crisis, say UN in a new report, after a ...

Kenya, for example, has gone from eight births per woman in 1973 to 3.3 last year, as African society urbanizes, girls receive more education and women have greater access to birth control.

Preterm birth (birth before 37 weeks’ gestation) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidities in the neonatal period, 1 childhood and adulthood. 2 Stillbirth has devastating consequences for ...

A new poll in the U.S. shows Americans are more concerned about the financial cost of raising a child rather than declining ...

Several big manufacturers in the baby products market have been extremely vocal about the struggles they are being faced with as a result of this decline in birth rates. For example, Kimberly ...

The US birth rate increased slightly in 2024, according to preliminary data from the CDC. The 1% rise in births was largely driven by moms in their early 40s, who gave birth to 2% more children in ...

In Belarus, for example, the fertility rate in 1988 was at replacement level; it fell to an abysmal 1.22 only nine years later. But then it rebounded, all the way up to 1.73 by 2015. Australia’s birth ...

But the UN projects that the U.S. birth rate will stay flat, not just this year but also in 2026 and 2030 and 2060 and 2090, never rising above 1.7 or dipping below 1.6.