Taiwan has overtaken South Korea to record the world’s lowest birth rate, according to newly released government data.

China's population fell for the fourth straight year in 2025 as its birth rates sunk to a record low, despite the government ...

North Korea has had the lowest birth rates for eight years in a row, but now a new country has taken that title.

Governments all over the world are trying to reverse the birth rate decline, with almost every country on the planet facing the challenges that may come with fewer babies being born. A major issue is ...

In 2015, the Chinese government abandoned the one-child policy, permitting couples to have two children. In May 2021, the two ...

Russia’s demographic decline, turbocharged by the war in Ukraine, has given birth to “one of the world’s most extreme natalism campaigns – and one of the weirdest”, said The Atlantic. The country’s ...