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The country's lower house of Parliament passed a law that would ban what it calls ''propaganda'' discouraging Russians from having children. Russian lawmakers on Tuesday voted to ban the advocacy [...]

President Vladimir Putin is throwing ever more resources at two interlocked priorities: recruiting more soldiers and encouraging bigger families. What the Kremlin wants from Russians now boils down to two [...]

According to Gallup, the desire to have children hasn't changed much over the years that it has polled Americans on the question: In 2023, Gallup reported that of all American [...]

Like many South Korean cities, Jecheon is being eroded by rapid aging and rock-bottom birthrates. Can ethnic Korean migrants from Central Asia turn it around? The nearby mines shut down [...]

A new study breaks down the reasons more U.S. adults say they are unlikely to have children. When Jurnee McKay, 25, imagines having children, a series of scary scenarios pop [...]

Byline: Monica Hesse The time has apparently come to panic about global declining birthrates, again. âAmerica is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population,â worried the Economist, in one of [...]

Byline: Monica Hesse The time has apparently come to panic about global declining birth rates, again. âAmerica is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population,â worried the Economist, in one [...]

Byline: Kelsey Ables, Julie Yoon SEOUL - In South Korea's capital, residents who have undergone vasectomies or had their tubes tied may soon be able to receive a cash reimbursement [...]

Byline: Sabrina Malhi The number of babies born in the United States fell by 2 percent in 2023, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [...]

The area around Bolzano has a thick network of family support provided by the government. That means a steady birthrate in a country facing a demographic plunge. In a municipal [...]

For some time now, South Korea has been a striking case study in the depopulation problem that hangs over the developed world. Almost all rich countries have seen their birthrates [...]

U.S. democracy is clearly in crisis. It's entirely possible that in less than two years dissenters will face the power of a government with an authoritarian bent; if that sounds [...]

China, facing an economic slump, wants to make its industrial northeast more productive, turning to policies that some economists say have outlived their time. Hundreds of workers at a factory [...]

A year after Dobbs, researchers are still trying to answer a central question: How many more babies are born as a result of abortion bans? For more than a year, [...]

New census data shows that the country's median age is now over 38. In 1980, it was 30. What's New The median age in the United States reached a record [...]

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- One of the misimpressions people have about the world is that it's going to hell. Perhaps that's because humanity's great triumph over the last half-century -- [...]

We are all getting old. Or, put another way: The world's population is aging. As birthrates fall and life expectancies lengthen, virtually every country in the world is getting older, [...]

Hundreds of restaurants, museums, cafes and other public establishments in the country ban children from entering. One lawmaker is pushing to get rid of the policy. SEOUL -- South Korea [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih and Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - In recent weeks, two pregnant women in India - Vaishnavi Logabiran and Malika Begum - gave birth to a boy and [...]

Byline: Andrew Jeong About 1 in 6 adults have experienced infertility over their lives, according to a new report from the World Health Organization that emphasizes the shared burden of [...]

Asia's population is shrinking faster than any other continent's. Asia faces a problem: Its population is aging faster than any other continent's. A growing percentage of people in Japan, South [...]

In the week since the publication of my first article in a series about declining global fertility rates in developed countries around the world, The Times ran at least two [...]

Wealthy countries have been trying to boost their birthrates for decades. The results have been pretty similar. China's population has begun to decline, a demographic turning point for the country [...]

Italy's population of elder Italians is soaring as its birthrate plummets, putting the country at the forefront of a global demographic trend that experts call the ''silver tsunami.'' PIACENZA, Italy [...]

Byline: Meaghan Tobin Amid fears of a demographic crisis in China after the country's birthrate reached its lowest level on record last year, officials in one of its most populous [...]

Byline: Meaghan Tobin Amid fears of a demographic crisis in China after the country's birthrate reached its lowest level on record last year, officials in one of its most populous [...]

After trying for over a year to persuade more South Korean women to have babies, Chung Hyun-back says one reason stands out for her failure: ''Our patriarchal culture.'' Ms. Chung, [...]

After trying for over a year to persuade more South Korean women to have babies, Chung Hyun-back says one reason stands out for her failure: ''Our patriarchal culture.'' Ms. Chung, [...]

Byline: Christian Shepherd and Lyric Li Sophia Wang knows to expect the question from relatives every time she returns to her hometown in China's rural Hunan province for Lunar New [...]

Byline: JAMES GRIFFITHS; Staff HONG KONG -- China's population shrank in 2022 for the first time since the Mao-era famine, pointing to a demographic crisis that will dominate the agenda [...]

For years, I've been writing columns predicting China's decline. This week, the decline became undeniable. The road downhill will not be smooth -- not for it or for us. The [...]

Deaths outnumbered births last year for the first time in six decades. Experts see major implications for China, its economy and the world. HONG KONG -- The world's most populous [...]

Byline: Miriam Berger and Rick Noack China has long been associated with its coercive one-child policy. After it took effect in the late 1970s, population growth began to slow - [...]

JENNINGS, Mo. -- Brittnee Marsaw was born to a 15-year-old mother in St. Louis and raised by a grandmother who had given birth even younger. Half grown by the time [...]

Byline: Jennifer Hassan The leader of Poland's ruling party caused a stir at home and abroad after he claimed the country's low birthrate is caused by young women who drink [...]

Byline: Karina Tsui China's National Health Commission announced this week that it would take steps to reduce the number of abortions in the country - Beijing's latest attempt to tackle [...]

Byline: Karina Tsui China's National Health Commission announced Tuesday that it would take steps to reduce the number of abortions in the country - Beijing's attempt to tackle low birthrates [...]

A declining birthrate and pandemic deaths helped drive U.S. population growth to historic lows. But immigration appears to be back on the rise. Overall, 2021 will go down as the [...]