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How should countries deal with falling birth rates?
BBC via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoThe rate has been falling since 2010. It is a similar picture in Scotland and Northern Ireland, which record their data separately. Meanwhile, in the...
Why Your 2025 Social Security COLA Could Be the Biggest Increase You'll Get for Years to Come
The Motley Fool via AOL· 2 days agoWhy? The Social Security Trustees predict lower COLAs ahead. The Social Security Trustees use three...
South Korea's ambitious plan to rescue its population
Newsweek· 7 days agoRate Counter Planning tasked with the handling the "national emergency." The moves are part of Seoul's intensified efforts to reverse its plummeting birthrate, fueled by shifting ...
Europe's fertility crisis: Which European country is having the fewest babies?
Euronews via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThat year, only 3.88 million babies were born in the EU, marking the first time the figure fell...
Revealed: the world's most populated cities
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoThat equates to an increase of almost 700,000 people. This is driven partly by the Democratic Republic of the Congo's extremely high fertility rate – the...
Map compares birth rates across US in 2023
Newsweek· 2 days agoFewer babies—around 3.6 million—were born to parents in the U.S. in 2023 than in any year since 1979. The total fertility rate fell to 1.62 births per...
The number of births continues to fall, despite abortion bans
Arkansas Advocate via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoBirths continued a historic slide in all but two states last year, making it clear that a brief...
Would the World Be Better Off With Fewer People? We're About To Find Out
The New York Sun· 15 hours agoWill the world be better off with fewer people? For years that has been a hypothetical question...
Opinion | Commencement Is Canceled. Why Aren’t the Protests?
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoStudents discuss universities’ responses to encampments and the value of a college education.
Utah, the youngest state, is getting older. Here’s why that matters
Utah News Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 days agoUtah has long been known as the youngest state (with a median age of 32, according to the U.S....