The Latest Breaking News from Birth Rate

China is planning to impose a 13% tax on condoms and other contraceptives as part of a major policy shift to raise its plunging birth rate.

Seven years ago, at 30 weeks into a seemingly low-risk pregnancy, I unexpectedly began to bleed. Doctors diagnosed me with complete placenta previa. Then, while on bed rest at 32 weeks, my placenta suddenly ruptured, leading to an immediate emergency cesarean section.

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.