2023 Data on U.S. Births
The total fertility rate was 1,62 births per woman in 2023, a decline of 2% from 2022. [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, April 2024.] READ MORE
India’s lessons from Chinese demography
It has a much younger workforce whose participation in the labour market is far lower than the level in China. [The Economic Times, 22 January 2022.] READ MORE
China: High time to lower costs to boost births
Because of the declining birth rate, China may, sooner than expected, enter a period of an aged society with shrinking births, as well as negative population growth. [Qu Xiaobo – China [...]
The global population is growing older, faster, than anyone expected
With even countries like India on a path to population decline, we can expect political shifts, environmental benefits and economic uncertainty – and we can expect it very soon. [John Ibbitson [...]
Examining the liberal case for pronatalism
This paper considers the liberal case for explicitly ‘pronatalist’ policies to increase the birth rate in the UK. Should the UK join 28% of countries that have adopted explicitly pronatalist [...]
