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Fertility Rates News

The rise of the “one and done” family

BBC - 05-Dec-2025

Modern pressures and fertility gaps shape the growing trend of single-child households

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UK fertility rates fall to historic lows despite slight rise in births

The Guardian - 27-Aug-2025

Record-low fertility raises concerns over ageing population and economic stability

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UK's fertility crisis with young people opting out of parenthood

BBC - 28-Oct-2024

Economic pressures and changing lifestyles are driving a dramatic decline in fertility rates

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South Korea has the world's fewest babies per woman, and the number keeps dropping

The Guardian - 28-Feb-2024

This is despite spending billions to encourage families to have more children

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Fertility rate decline becomes a brewing crisis in South Korea

BBC - 25-Aug-2022

Billions of dollars spent as incentive is not convincing people to have children

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Baby shortage in the country may lead to long-term economic stagnation

Guardian - 20-Sep-2021

Worldwide 28% of countries adopt pronatalist policies to drive up the birthrate

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Ghost towns getting recolonized by flourishing wildlife

Guardian - 24-Jan-2021

Falling birth rate is a global concern; nature reserves reclaimed abandoned towns

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Falling birth rates - a matter of concern in Russia

BBC - 20-Jan-2020

Can money correct the falling birth rates?

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Crude birth rate of England and Wales hits a new low

BBC - 01-Aug-2019

Total fertility rate is lower than many other years except 1977 and 1999 to 2002

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Japan annual birth rate nearly half a million below death rate

Guardian - 27-Dec-2018

A stark example of how birth rate falls below in replacement level in advanced economies

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Declining birth rate as a cause for celebration

Guardian - 26-Dec-2018

AI, migration, a healthier old age show that countries don't need boomed populations for defending

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Worldwide decline in fertility rates

BBC - 09-Nov-2018

Half of countries now have a fertility rate below the 2.1 level required to maintain their population

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