Vietnam is changing its population law to remove the two-child limit in an attempt to reverse a plummeting birth rate. The country has one of the lowest birth rates in Southeast Asia and, like several ...

From cash incentives to calls for national duty, governments deployed every tool to boost births, but declining fertility proved far harder to reverse than expected ...

Japan is likely to cover parents’ hospital fees for childbirth from April 2026 as the country struggles to reverse its falling birth rate. A panel of experts tasked with examining ways to ease ...

Editor: As of 2022, the U.S. fertility birth rate of 1.7 births per 1,000 women was less than the minimum rate of 2.1 to maintain a replacement population. This is a very serious crisis as currently ...

Gary Ng, Senior Economist at Natixis, says that while China might be able to roll out more proactive policies to stem the decline in birth rates, it is unlikely to reverse this trend once it starts.

Sky News host Caleb Bond praises The Parent Hood organisation for advocating that federally funded paternity and maternity leave should be increased to a full 52 weeks. “We have serious problems with ...