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The U.S. birth rate has been declining since the Great Recession, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and that problem is about to rear its head in college enrollment numbers. 

China’s central government introduced a childcare subsidy on July 28 that will provide families with 3,000 yuan (around £312) a year for each child under the age of three. The announcement came days after plans were unveiled to roll out free preschool education across the country.

Australian mothers are giving birth at an older age on average, while birth rates have fallen according to a report on health and birth outcomes.

Nationwide subsidy scheme expected to benefit over 20 million families

China's government will offer subsidies to parents to the tune of $500 per child under the age of three per year, Beijing's state media said Monday, as the world's second most populous nation faces a looming demographic crisis.

Elon Musk has made a bold prediction that artificial intelligence (AI) will increase birth rates.

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S.

The US birth rate has fluctuated over the years and can be influenced by factors such as economic stability.

South Korea registered record birth rate growth during the first five months of the year, a statistics agency official told AFP on Wednesday.

The decisions have cast doubts over the future of other Lambeth schools as the borough continues to be hit by plummeting birth rates

In the last 20 years, the desire to have children has fallen sharply in France, according to a study published by the French Institute for Demographic Studies last week – and the country's birth rate is at its lowest since the end of the Second World War.