The move comes under new health guidelines, brought in to try and tackle Russia's declining birth rate.

Would a trophy or tax break be enough to convince Americans to have more children? Countries around the world with plummeting ...

The U.S. birth rate is declining. Rose Paz’s choices help explain why.

Around the world, birth rates are falling every year. In the USA, for instance, the total fertility rate has fallen from 2.1 babies per woman in 2007 down to 1.6 in 2023, and is still falling. The USA ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...

It’s a taxing time for sweethearts in China. After a 30-year exemption, the country is slapping a 13% sales tax on condoms, birth control pills and devices, hoping to boost its declining birth rates ...

The number of births in China, which has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates, fell by 17 percent in 2025.

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...