France’s poverty rate surged to 15.4% in 2023, the highest level since national statistics agency INSEE began tracking the ...

Far more families are choosing to have fewer — or no — children. Many countries, including the U.S., now face a rapidly aging ...

Venture capitalists made more deals in the sector in 2024 than in the past decade, with good and bad outcomes for patients ...

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

We don’t prioritize kids more than the other things in our lives.

Every part of that appears to be wrong. In reality, Thailand’s reported birth rate last year was 0.98, and preliminary 2025 ...

Nearly 20% of adults from 14 countries believe they won’t be able to have as many kids as they want, new research found.

According to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the country’s total fertility rate (TFR) is 1.9 children per woman in 2022. TFR is the average number of children a woman might have in her ...

France's fertility rate, while currently decreasing, is still the highest in the EU — which the Institute for Family Studies credits to its historical pronatal policies, including flexible child ...

Even France—for years held up as country where pronatalist policies were working—has seen fertility rate decreases since 2011, with the total fertility rate in 2024 at 1.59.

But while the fertility rate rose a bit in the years after the new policy was instituted in 2019 — when the total fertility rate was 1.55 children per woman — it has since sunk to 1.38.

Low fertility rates have sparked panic and pronatalist initiatives around the world. But some experts are more concerned about the ethics of pushing for more births.