A global halt in childbirth could lead to human extinction within a century, with societal collapse starting much earlier. Declining birth rates in Japan and US signal this trend ...

"I like Italy. I like South Korea. I enjoy the existence of distinctive human cultures. I would prefer that these cultures and countries not disappear," the New York Times columnist tells Reason.

India, he argues, has entered a phase of demographic slowdown. The number of annual births peaked nearly 15 years ago.

In a survey of 14,000 people across 14 countries, one in five said they either haven’t had or don’t expect to have their ...

The fertility decline is no longer limited to the southern states but has emerged as a nationwide trend, with the country's ...

India’s demographic story is changing and with it comes a new set of opportunities and challenges India, with concerns about overpopulation, now faces a very different demographic dilemma — one marked ...

It's often assumed that low fertility rates are due to people simply not wanting to have children, or more than one or two, ...

Solving the global fertility crisis would require creating conditions that support parenting instead of pushing economic ...

A scientist has now revealed exactly how long it would take for humanity to go extinct if we stopped having babies.

Globally, fertility rates have plummeted from around five children per woman in 1950 to just 2.3 today, with projections ...

"The world has begun an unprecedented decline in fertility rates," says Dr Natalia Kanem, head of UNFPA. "Most people ...