Rising numbers of older people across the continent are straining budgets and making for some difficult political decisions ...

For many women, the transition to parenthood is a life-altering event filled with new challenges and responsibilities. A new ...

Although the hepatitis B vaccine has been heralded as triumph of public health, a federal advisory panel whose members were ...

China clocked its lowest birth rate on record in 2025 as its population shrank for the fourth year in a row, deepening a demographic challenge that could drag on the world’s second-largest economy for ...

East Asia is home to some of the lowest birth rates globally. The trend, coupled with rapidly aging populations, strains ...

North Korea has had the lowest birth rates for eight years in a row, but now a new country has taken that title.

Thousands of people took to the streets across Denmark to protest US President Donald Trump’s ambitions to take control of ...

America’s tumbling birthrate is pushing colleges toward a “demographic cliff,” where a declining population in the late teens ...

Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, fertility rates have not bounced back. NPR speaks with journalist Cindy Yu ...

WASHINGTON — While the Trump administration explores ways to encourage Americans to have more babies and reverse the United States' falling birth rate, a new poll finds that relatively few U.S. adults ...