South Korea had the world's lowest birth rate for at least eight consecutive years, from 2016 through 2023, with its rate falling for eight straight years to a record low of 0.72 in 2023, before ...

Newsweek has created a graph to show how births in the United States have declined over the last 50 years. This has happened for every age group, fluctuating across the decades, rising steadily in the ...

China clocked its lowest birth rate on record in 2025 as its population shrank for the fourth year in a row, deepening a demographic challenge that could drag on the world’s second-largest economy for ...