The latest data on fertility across the continent is not far from apocalyptic. For the year 2024, many European countries are reporting their lowest birth rates in several decades, if not on record.

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV has called for a “concerted effort to promote choices at all levels in favor of the family” amid falling birth rates. The American Pope’s recent plea to confront declining birth rates in ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

Birth rates are falling here in the US and many parts of the world. Much of the attention has focused on declining populations in East Asia and Europe, but the number of babies being born in Latin ...