America’s tumbling birthrate is pushing colleges toward a “demographic cliff,” where a declining population in the late teens ...

Preterm birth rates rose from 2011 to 2021 in households with income below the federal poverty level. Black mothers across all income brackets had higher preterm birth rates compared with white ...

HONG KONG, Jan 2 (Reuters) - China removed a three-decade-old tax exemption on contraceptive drugs and devices from January 1 in new steps to spur a flagging birth rate. Condoms and contraceptive ...

China has imposed a 13 per cent value-added tax on condoms, contraceptive drugs and devices as part of renewed efforts to reverse the country’s declining birth rate. The policy, which took effect from ...

About The Study: In this population-based cross-sectional study, household income disparities in preterm birth widened over time. Black race moderated the association between income and preterm birth, ...

There’s been a lot of talk about birth rates this year. President Donald Trump dubbed himself the “fertilization president” shortly after reentering the White House and declared, “We want more babies.

Birth rates are crashing worldwide—why is this happening, and can we reverse it? Birth rates are declining across the world, and the consequences could reshape entire nations. Why are fewer people ...

It is still too early to talk about a reversal of birth rate trends, Tatyana Golikova said MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. It is still too early to speak about a reversal of birth rate trends in Russia, ...

Editor: The US.., like most western countries, has a current birth rate of approximately 1.6 (or fewer) babies per woman that is lower than the replacement rate of 2.1 necessary to maintain our ...

Russia’s demographic decline, turbocharged by the war in Ukraine, has given birth to “one of the world’s most extreme natalism campaigns – and one of the weirdest”, said The Atlantic. The country’s ...

China will scrap a long-standing tax exemption for contraceptives, with products such as condoms set to be subject to value-added tax (VAT) from January 1, 2026 under a new law. Contraceptives will no ...