Russia is paying schoolgirls to have babies in a bid to boost its plummeting birth rate, but experts say cash incentives ...

New research has sparked fears about the American birth rate and whether there is any hope for it to improve. Americans in ...

As the birth rate continues to fall, Helen Taylor examines the bittersweet reality of a growing older without children ...

This new measure, introduced in the past few months across 10 regions, is part of Russias new demographic strategy, widening ...

Births have risen for 10 consecutive months, but the world's lowest fertility rate remains far below replacement levels.

In February 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the national MMR had dipped to 142. Between 2016 and 2023 it ...

Five years ago, on July 4, 2020, the country was in the midst of waves of rioting. The proximate cause, the match that lit the fire, was the death of a black man, a violent ex-convict, on May 25, with ...

Declining birthrates are expected to lead to hundreds of additional surplus places in Southampton primary schools in the coming years.

Wyoming lawmakers are weighing bills to raise Medicaid reimbursements for obstetrics and emergency medical services to stabilize care access statewide ...

This year will bring "another significant decline of the birth rate" for the majority of countries, new analysis shows.

China will pay families to have children in an attempt to combat the country’s declining birth rate. Xi Jinping’s government will give parents 3,600 yuan (£367) a year per child until they are three ...

Birth rates are tumbling across the world. This isn’t just a tragedy for the growing number of women who have fewer children ...