Steep population declines in most countries are expected to have negative effects over the next several generations, but ...

Newsweek spoke to several experts about what positive cultural shifts the birth rate decline is illustrative of.

Many who were in college in the 1960s and 1970s read “The Population Bomb” by Stanford professors Paul and Anne Ehrlich. The ...

The U.S. fertility rate fell to an all-time low of 1.6 kids per woman in 2024, fueled in part by rising housing costs.

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Is birth rate decline a real problem? What issues might it cause? KELSEY PIPER: A lot of the way the economy is set up, institutions like Social Security, they were built when we had a growing ...

Researchers argued that housing represents the single largest cost in raising children, outweighing food, child care and ...

The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank involved in crafting Project 2025, is planning to tackle the declining ...