https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/19/144215/china-birth-rate-falls-to-lowest-since-1949
China's birth rate fell to 5.6 per 1,000 people in 2025, the lowest figure since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, and the country's total...
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https://www.salon.com/2019/02/15/heres-why-the-birth-rate-is-so-low-in-the-united-states_partner/
Feb 15, 2019 - Millennials are having children later and are having fewer of them, leading to the lowest birth rate since 1987
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-from-preterm-birth-complications
May 17, 2024 - The estimated death rate from neonatal preterm birth complications in children under five years old, per 100,000.
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https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/birth-rate-by-country
Jan 9, 2026 - Data on the birth rate by country, highlighting both top ten countries with the highest and lowest birth rates per 1000 people.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/china-childbirth-maternity-expenses-cost-b2884520.html
Dec 15, 2025 - It is the latest in a series of moves to encourage families to have children
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https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/30/growing-share-of-americans-say-fewer-people-having-kids-would-negatively-impact-the-us/
Sep 30, 2025 - Over half of Americans (53%) now say fewer people choosing to have children in the future would negatively impact the United States.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51120165
Jan 15, 2020 - Russia's president announces a series of measures including benefit payments for new mothers.
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https://inews.co.uk/opinion/dont-blame-narcissistic-women-for-the-uks-falling-birthrate-2827854
Jan 3, 2024 - Falling birth rates are an economic problem for politicians, not young women, to solve with social policy
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https://www.thedailystar.net/news/asia/china/news/chinas-birth-rate-push-sputters-couples-stay-child-free-4073581
The nation is dealing with a looming demographic crisis
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https://www.firstpost.com/vantage/china-taxes-birth-control-to-boost-birth-rate-vantage-with-palki-sharma-vd1754243/
Jan 4, 2026 - China has added a 13% tax on contraceptives while making childcare services tax-exempt, aiming to reverse population decline. But critics say the policy misses...
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https://www.ibtimes.com/tokyo-govt-launch-dating-app-boost-birth-rate-3733624
Jun 4, 2024 - Japan's capital will launch its own dating app as early as this summer as part of government efforts to boost the plunging national birth rate, a Tokyo...
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https://www.mississippifreepress.org/democracy-of-childless-psychopath-women-and-replacement-jd-vances-birthrate-and-immigration-obsessions-have-shared-history/
Aug 7, 2025 - Donna Ladd writes about the ugly history behind JD Vance’s obsessions with birth rates and replacement theory.
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https://everymum.ie/pregnancy/birth/ireland-birth-rate-drops/
Nov 27, 2025 - Ireland's birth rate has dropped by 20% over the past 11 years, while the rate of potentially dangerous ectopic pregnancies has increased.
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https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/30/the-last-thing-a-nation-with-a-record-low-fertility-rate-needs-is-a-male-birth-control-pill/
Jul 31, 2025 - The cause of America’s falling birth rate is complicated. But adding a male contraceptive to the mix certainly isn’t helping.
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