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The global birth rate is shrinking

Shrinking birth rates In the last 50 years, the global fertility landscape has undergone a massive transformation, shifting ...
Financial incentives like baby allowances and cash schemes being rolled out by some countries won't solve the fertility crisis, experts told BI.
Globally, approximately 1 in 6 people of reproductive age will experience infertility at some point in their lifetimes — 13.4 ...
The total fertility rate in the United States – the estimated number of children that the average woman will have in her lifetime, based on present trends – has generally declined over the past two ...
“In the past”, says Furkan Kayabasoglu, an obstetrician in Istanbul, “I would deliver a couple’s first baby and then their second or even a third.” These days, however, “one and done” parents are ...
Declining fertility rates in South Korea, Japan, and China are making the countries think hard about how best to maintain their militaries.