South Korea has one of the world's most rapidly contracting and aging societies worldwide. After nearly a decade of birth rates in steady decline, South Korea reversed that trend to report a ...

Over the past 15 years, the birth rate in the United States has dropped from 2.1 births per woman to 1.66, well below the birth rate needed to keep the population stable. This trend needs to be ...

Two new studies in the medical journal JAMA reveal how restricted access to abortion can lead to higher deaths, especially for women of color.

Tamil Nadu resists the Centre’s Hindi imposition in the form of the NEP’s three-language formula, fuelling a major federalism ...

A recent executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expand access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, care across the ...

The number of babies born in South Korea has rebounded for the first time in nine years, welcome news for a country grappling ...

A shift in societal norms could prove pivotal in a country that over the past decade has seen its birthrate plummet to the ...

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the US will sell a new “gold card” to wealthy foreigners. This card will ...

SOUTH Korea recorded the first increase in its fertility rate in nine years, in a rare piece of positive news for ...

Marriages, a leading indicator of new births, jumped 14.9% in 2024, the biggest spike since the data started being released ...

Gideon Lewis-Kraus explores whether we’re witnessing the end of children. Plus: Jon Lee Anderson on growing up in a U.S.A.I.D ...

The “total fertility rate” is a coarse estimate of the number of children an average woman will bear. A population will be ...