The number of live births in England and Wales rose last year, the first increase since 2021, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). There were 594,677 live births registered in 2024, ...

From the cost of childcare to the housing crisis, there’s no shortage of explanations for the dramatic global fall in the number of babies being born. These analyses, though, are all missing something ...

Couples who work from home at least one day a week are having more children and planning larger families, according to a ...

In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying less about overpopulation and more about depopulation. Comparing it to ...

This year will bring "another significant decline of the birth rate" for an "overwhelming number of countries," new analysis shows. Birth Gauge, an open-source database that aggregates global ...

How London’s falling birthrate is affecting applications for secondary school places - The capital has been facing a ...

KELSEY PIPER: A lot of the way the economy is set up, institutions like Social Security, they were built when we had a growing population. And they do have a sort of assumption baked into them that ...