We are still in the season of prognostications about the year ahead. But I gave my forecasts for 2026 last week. Today I am looking much further into the future, examining our demographic prospects.

As overall fertility falls globally, Latin American and Caribbean countries are experiencing fertility drops that are unexpected and have been hard to explain so far. Countries that typically had ...

What many might perceive as a gradual shift is, in reality, a profound demographic transformation with far-reaching implications that could reshape economies, societies, and even our understanding of ...

President Donald Trump, a father of five who dubbed himself the “fertilization president” during Women’s History Month, has reportedly begun to float potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth ...

The declining birth rate has been a major topic of discussion, with governments all over the world trying to find ways to reverse it. There is a constantly evolving discussion about the causes of the ...

Over the past few decades, birth rates have plummeted in the West. A recent Financial Times article reported that the decline in fertility has been much steeper among progressives than conservatives.

Pronatalism—the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed—is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...

While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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 ...