U.S. birth rate is below the replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman required to maintain stable population without ...

China's leadership is eager to reverse the trend, as the soaring number of elderly citizens is expected to increase the burden on families and strain the country's social welfare systems, sapping ...

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 ...

America’s birth rate has plunged to its lowest level ever, with the CDC reporting fewer than 1.6 children per woman in 2024.

To maintain a stable population, a replacement rate of approximately 2.1 to 2.3 children per woman is required. Alarmingly, by 2021, over half of all countries (110 out of 204) were already below ...

A woman holding her baby in her arms is seen on March 6, 2019, in Seoul, South Korea. Fertility rates in nearly all countries will be too low to sustain population levels by the end of the century ...

Many countries have very low fertility, which leads to both population decline and a much older population. The United Nations reports that 10% of countries now have fertility below 1.4 births per ...

By 2050, three-quarters of the world's nations will see fertility rates fall to below replacement levels, meaning their populations will be steadily shrinking, a new study predicts.

If the replacement rate falls below 2.1, however, the population will eventually contract, which is where the world is now headed. In fact, we may have already crossed that line.

India's total fertility rate has now fallen below the replacement level, even as its population is estimated to reach 1.46 ...

The country suffers one of the lowest population replacement rates in the world due to financial, social, and logistical challenges posed by child-rearing.

At that rate, if we somehow devised a policy to increase birth rates for one year by 10 percent, it would cost some $115 billion to raise those 360,000 additional children up to age 18.