East Asia is home to some of the lowest birth rates globally. The trend, coupled with rapidly aging populations, strains ...

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

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 ...

Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, fertility rates have not bounced back. NPR speaks with journalist Cindy Yu ...

The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals ...

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.