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The pandemic “baby bust” could push 2021’s tally down even further; researchers have estimated that the coronavirus and its economic impact could lead to about 300,000 fewer births in the United [...]

The decision has been adopted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party to help improve China’s population structure, actively respond to the aging population, and preserve the country’s [...]

It’s a thorny problem with no easy solutions. Some, like Russia, have tried throwing money at it, offering parents generous cash incentives to have children. But policies like this rarely [...]

A country that does not publicly fund national defense won’t have much of it. A society that doesn’t support parents will have fewer children. [Stephanie H. Murray – The Atlantic, 25 April [...]

What role does population play in thinking about the problem of climate change and some of its solutions? This survey asked European demographers to state their views and asked them to rate their [...]

As well as the impact of population dynamics on development is understood, there is surprisingly little global awareness of the next great stage of the world historical demographic story, even [...]

In 2019, 4.17 million babies were born in the European Union (EU), continuing a decreasing trend that started after 2008 when 4.68 million children were born in the EU. [Eurostat, 23 March [...]

The rise of “work-focused” value sets and life courses means that achieving work-family balance isn’t just about employment norms adjusting to the growing complexity of individual aspirations; it [...]

In the current study, hypotheses are formulated about the influence of economic inequality and norms regarding family formation on this relationship and they are tested in 19 European and North [...]

Fertility remained stable in France between 2018 and 2019, after having fallen from 2.02 children per woman in 2010 to 1.84 in 2018. Have similar fluctuations occurred elsewhere? [Gilles Pison [...]