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July 2024

  • Father holding newborn daughter<br>GettyImages-656366364 newborn baby father stock

    Australia in biggest ‘baby recession’ since 1970s as pandemic birth boom fades

  • Two women on bicycles in Tokyo

    Japan asks young people why they are not marrying amid population crisis

  • A woman holds a needle to inject herself to prepare for fertility treatment

    ‘Society doesn’t want my kids’: China’s single women forced abroad to freeze their eggs

  • A crowded train platform in Mumbai, India

    Global population predictions offer ‘hopeful sign’ for planet, UN says

June 2024

  • Babies in a hospital nursery. In 2022 the fertility rate across England and Wales fell to 1.49 children per woman.

    The baby bust: how Britain’s falling birthrate is creating alarm in the economy

  • Sonia Sodha

    The falling birthrate threatens a disaster so costly no politician dares think about it

    Sonia Sodha
  • Chung Hsing private high school in Taipei, Taiwan, which closed in 2019 due to low enrolment. Dozens of schools, colleges and universities are closing their doors due to population decline.

    Empty classrooms, silent halls: Taiwan’s declining birthrate forces schools to close

  • Two children walk along a dusty path carrying water containers

    Conflicts drive number of forcibly displaced people to record high

  • South Korea thinktank suggests girls start school earlier to raise birthrate

  • Weekend
    America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world, Marina Hyde on the election campaign trail, and is doing nothing the secret of happiness? – podcast

May 2024

  • Malcolm and Simone Collins with their children in Eagleville, Pennsylvania.

    Pronatalists are conveniently ignoring Earth’s real problems

    Letters: Madeleine Hewitt says it’s time people who support the movement recognised that nothing in nature exists independently. Greg Blonder notes that many of the problems we need to solve are the result of the growing population itself
  • Malcolm and Simone Collins with their children Octavian George Collins, four, Torsten Savage Collins, two, and Titan Invictus Collins, one, at home in Pennsylvania.

    America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’

    Elon Musk (father of 11) supports their cause. Thousands follow their ideology. Malcolm and Simone Collins are on a mission to make it easier for everyone to have multiple children. But are they really model parents?
    • Brief letters
      CS Lewis should have tried self-reflection

    • Brief letters
      Billie Eilish and Becky Hill’s grim take on growing up in today’s world

    • ‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families

April 2024

  • People at a bar with Sydney Harbour Bridge in background

    Percentage of Australians born overseas at highest level since 1893

    The Indian-born population grew the most, rising by more than 90,000 people to take the diaspora to almost 846,000 in total at June 2023
  • Police officer had stopped Gideon Falter from walking near pro-Palestinian march while wearing kippah skull cap

    Brief letters
    Anyone is welcome at ceasefire marches

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    • From the agencies
      ‘We need to keep trying’: tackling Greece’s falling birthrate – in pictures

    • To boost birthrates, we must give women the freedom of choice

    • When desperate measures to persuade women to have children fail, it’s time for fresh thinking

      Devi Sridhar
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