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

Conversely, while a significant decline in total fertility rates poses a challenge to economic stability in various developed ...

Every part of that appears to be wrong. In reality, Thailand’s reported birth rate last year was 0.98, and preliminary 2025 data show the decline continuing. In a country the size of Thailand, the ...

In some countries, social stigma and legal restrictions keep young people from accessing sexual and reproductive care. In others, it’s restrictive gender norms, especially for unmarried youth. In ...

Tap water has been banned in 16 communes in France due to contamination by PFAS ‘forever chemicals’, with some areas ...

Tap water has been banned in 16 communes in France due to contamination by PFAS ‘forever chemicals’, with some areas ...

(Paris, France, Wednesday, 2 July 2025) A landmark 30-year study of over four million women in England has revealed that women with endometriosis-associated infertility are significantly more likely ...

This year will bring "another significant decline of the birth rate" for the majority of countries, new analysis shows.

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

France’s new feed-in tariffs (FITs) for July to September 2025 range from €0.0886 ($0.1046)/kWh to €0.1243/kWh, depending on ...

Our study reviewed 152 scientific publications from 23 African countries. We examined trends in authorship, research focus, ...

According to Statistics Canada report released in September, the Canadian fertility rate in 2023 was 1.26 children per woman, which is the lowest recorded level since the agency began collecting data.