Although the UNFPA recognized concerns about an aging population caused by the lack of children, the report concluded 'the ...

United Nations, New York — "Do you want kids?" Every day, people around the world ask themselves, and others, this question. But it also begs another: "Do you feel able to have children?"With over 8 ...

India's population is estimated to reach 1.46 billion in 2025, continuing to be the highest in the world, according to a new ...

Ashes to ashes, bust to bust. Two essays today frame the breadth of human life, beginning with Eduardo Porter’s on the big ...

After some two decades of stability, the nation’s fertility rate has plunged by almost a quarter since the start of the Great ...

What does a TFR rate of 3.0 mean for Bihar? Does it have any association ... Bihar will achieve the replacement level of fertility (2.1) only in in 2039. Bihar is the only laggard State in terms ...

The Total Fertility Rate (TFR), the average number of children ... of the population in the age group of 60 and above. The mean age at effective marriage for females has increased from 19.3 ...

argued that the support it would offer to families is more relevant than questions of increasing fertility rates. “What it’s intended to do is to get families who want a baby more of a reason ...

but the fertility rate there is still lower than that in the U.S., and Hungarian births this year are already down compared to last year. Does all this mean the government should just be on standby?

The claim that religious leadership can have an appreciable impact on fertility rates is not new ... level of 2.1 children per woman to above, meaning the country is now adding population.

Alarmist narratives about falling fertility rates distract from ... ageing society presents challenges, lower birth rates don’t necessarily mean lower living standards. On the contrary, a ...

The fertility rate in the U.S. is not predicted to rise ... the birth-order-specific total fertility rate3 for changes in the mean age at birth at each birth order. This accounts for the pace ...