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"Between 2013 and 2023, the percentage of births to moms aged 40 to 44 increased by almost 40%." This post appeared first in ...

Contraceptives are now subject to a 13 percent value-added tax, while services related to childcare and marriage are exempt.

An advisory body has warned that Ireland's population is at risk of what it called a "vicious downward cycle" due to a ...

GRAND FORKS – North Dakota birth rates have declined 35% since 2016, a trend some say is caused by economic uncertainty, a shift in social norms and a post-oil boom lull. Unless residents start having ...

The U.S. Census Bureau released new population projections this month forecasting that the American fertility rate (the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) will drop to 1.55 by ...

Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax ...

California’s birth rate has hit a record low, a historic “baby bust” in a state with the world’s fourth largest economy, dipping below the birth rate of 1906, when San Francisco was recovering from ...

Systemic change that offers a credible vision of the future is the only path to reversing the birth rate decline, experts warn.

Saudi Arabia is witnessing a significant decline in birth rates, leading to concerns about an aging population. Experts discuss the socioeconomic factors driving this trend and the implications for ...

China has begun charging value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and devices, ending a three-decade-old exemption as authorities intensify efforts to reverse a sustained decline in births. From January ...

Japan’s birth rate in 2025 may fall to the lowest level in the entire history of statistical observations, News.Az reports, citing the ...