First Lady Olena Zelenska said that Ukraine has the lowest birth rate in its history due to the Russian invasion – about ...

A foresight-based look at Ukraine and global politics—six scenarios shaped by sovereignty, power, and the future of the ...

Affordability could be a key factor behind America’s declining birth rate, with one preprint paper finding that rising ...

Nov 14, 2025 // Diplomatic Courier’s Stephanie Gull brings you weekly under–the–radar stories from around the world. This week in Europe: A new report highlights the growing struggle against declining ...

November 7, 2025: The quantity and qualities of people in East Asia are changing. The populations of China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Russia are aging and shrinking, while India, the Philippines ...

The United States, once an outlier among industrialized countries with respect to its high birth rate, has caught up with the low fertility trend. As ...

A decision to stop heart monitors before a baby's birth and to switch off an overhead heater were mistakes, but they may not ...

MOSCOW, November 6. /TASS/. The Bank of Russia forecasts average quarterly inflation in Russia to be at the level of 6.8-8.7% annually in the fourth quarter of this year, the regulator said in a ...

MOSCOW, November 6. /TASS/. The Bank of Russia estimated growth of the national GDP as 0.4% year on year in the third quarter of 2025, which is 1.6% lower than the July forecast of 1.6%, the regulator ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is actively creating ways to address Russia's plummeting birth rate, saying that increased ...

An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...

Postville's meatpacking plants have attracted many immigrants and helped to sustain its population. During a busy lunch hour at Postville’s Junior Senior High School, Brendan Knudtson, the ...