How does it feel to parent in Kenya, Japan, Finland and the US? Four women share the highs – and lows – of becoming a mother ...

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 ...

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 ...

In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying ...

Parents have pointed to discrepancies in population projections in protesting plans to close Waukesha schools.

While "the dramatic decline in the teen birth rate since the early 1990s has occurred across all race/ethnic and ...

South Korea's population might plummet to 15% of its current level over the next 100 years due to an ongoing demographic ...

The program, intended to improve Georgia’s ranking on indicators of child “well-being”, received $30 million in funding in ...

Data released by China’s Ministry of Education last month revealed an astonishing reality: In the past two years alone, 36,000 preschools across China have shuttered their doors. This is not due to a ...