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 ...
Roughly two-thirds of the world’s population now lives in regions where total fertility rates, births expected per woman, are below the 2.1 threshold needed for natural population replacement, per the ...
China’s birth rate has dropped to its lowest level since official records began in 1949—Newsweek has broken down how this compares with other parts of the globe. Last year, China recorded 7.92 million ...