China introduced a 13% tax on contraceptives while exempting childcare services as the global superpower battles sustained ...

The world's population is still growing, yet beneath these global statistics lies a different reality for dozens of countries ...

Two-thirds of the world's population already lives in countries where fertility is below this so-called replacement rate, a McKinsey study said. Falling birth rates have put major global economies on ...

The global decline in birth rates and aging populations has moved from a distant concern to a pressing reality, reshaping societies and challenging economic stability. Japan, in particular, stands at ...

Six years after Greece exited its financial bailout programmes, marking the official end of a painful economic crisis, the country is now facing a new kind of emergency that could influence its social ...

In his April essay "An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here's How to Survive," New York Times columnist Ross Douthat argues that falling birth rates and fraying cultural institutions signal a ...

Before a collapse in Georgia’s rural counties population, a decade of drops in per capita income lay the foundation for future trouble. Rural Georgia’s current demographic implosion didn’t happen ...

Lasta, GREECE — There's nobody around anymore to man Saint George cafe in Lasta, a mountainous village in Greece's Peloponnese region. Instead, there's an honor system — just take a drink, leave a ...

For Mads Larsen, 20th-century feminism has created an unprecedented fertility crisis — ‘worse than World War II; worse than the Black Death.’ A literary scholar using evolutionary perspectives to ...

Falling birth rates have put major global economies on the path toward "population collapse," according to a report from McKinsey Global Institute. By 2100, some ...