Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nakayokawa Elementary School, closed three years ago, is seen in the remote village of Yokawa on February 29, 2024 in Miki, Japan.

In 1970, a woman in Mexico might have expected to have seven children, on average. By 2014, that figure had fallen to around two. As of 2023, it was just 1.6. That means that the population is no ...

The inaugural 2026 Global Fertility Crisis Forum was held last Thursday in Hong Kong. The event brought together 44 gue ...

Canada's birth rate in 2025 was at 9.94 per cent, which currently sits almost three times lower than what it was in the 1950s ...

Perhaps the most profound implication of population decline lies in how we measure societal success. For millennia, growth served as the primary metric. A larger population meant more workers, more ...

Fertility decline is a global trend but particularly a concern in the Western Pacific region. Since 2021, the total fertility rates in many parts of Asia have already fallen below 2.1 per woman, the ...

Thai filmmaker Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit is bringing his most personal project yet to the Venice Film Festival‘s Horizons section with “Human Resource,” a contemplative drama that tackles the global ...

Global population trends are drawing increasing concern from experts and public figures alike. Recently, political commentator Tim Pool highlighted declining birth rates and their far-reaching social ...

What Falling Global Birth Rates Really Mean for the Future Steep population declines in most countries are expected to have negative effects over the next several generations, but adaptation is ...