Every part of that appears to be wrong. In reality, Thailand’s reported birth rate last year was 0.98, and preliminary 2025 ...

We don’t prioritize kids more than the other things in our lives.

France had a population of 68.6 million as of January 1, 2025, an increase of 0.25 percent over one year. Migration flows added a net 152,000 people to the overall population last year, Insee said.

Bridget Phillipson has urged Britons to have more children because of the “worrying repercussions” of a plummeting birth rate ...

The question of the declining birth rate is one of the greatest problems of modern France and is a matter of grave concern to politicians and public spirited men. A recent proposal states that ...

PIPER: [Also], in cultures where children are very rare, the confidence and feeling that you can have children, that that is ...

Between the lines: Though child care support — subsidies for parents or universal policies, as in France — has been shown to ...

Even France—for years held up as country where pronatalist policies were working—has seen fertility rate decreases since 2011, with the total fertility rate in 2024 at 1.59.