"Low birth rates and an ageing population will profoundly reshape our nation, our society and our economy in the years ahead, ...

But his paper also reveals that the housing market’s failure to provide three-bedroom units is a massive driver of our ...

Understand Singapore's record low total fertility rate of 0.87 and its implications for the country's population and economy. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

From the cost of childcare to the housing crisis, there’s no shortage of explanations for the dramatic global fall in the number of babies being born. These analyses, though, are all missing something ...

Easing the child penalty in the labour market could also increase fertility. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Singapore's birth rate has hit a record low of 0.87 in 2025. This alarming trend requires careful immigration management to ...

Republicans have gone from belly-aching about prolific “welfare queens” to wringing their hands about the low birth rate and ...

Letting people work from home would be the most effective and cheapest way to boost Britain’s record-low birth rate, a new ...

Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong said that without concerted action, the country’s citizen population will start to shrink by the early 2040s.

There’s something that feels right about sitting on Lorraine Kelly’s big, squashy sofa, cups of tea arrayed before us on a ...

Four years of war have discouraged Ukrainian and Russian women from having children, and that could impact their economies in ...

The U.S. birth rate is falling, which has prompted hand-wringing among some of the political class. Academics, however, say there's another way to look at this.