Birthrate

South Korea has shuttered over 4,000 schools since 1980, the Education Ministry revealed this week, as the nation grapples with a catastrophic plunge in birth rates and plummeting student enrollment.

China's National Bureau of Statistics announced that its population declined for the third consecutive year in 2024, despite a modest increase in births for the first time in seven years.

France’s birthrate fell to its lowest level since the end of World War I, with only 663,000 babies born in 2024, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). This marks a 2.2% decline from the previous year and the lowest recorded births since 1946. The fertility rate also dropped to 1.62 children per woman, well below the 2.1 replacement level needed to maintain population stability.

American women now only have one or two children on average.

Hungary leads the way with its family policy model.

"I feel like the only solution is pretty clear," he said at the time. "In the end, isn't it mass suicide and mass 'seppuku' of the elderly?"

China’s population shrank for the first time in decades last year as its birthrate plunged, official figures showed Tuesday, adding to pressure on leaders to keep the economy growing despite an aging workforce and at a time of rising tension with the U.S.

Eleanor Jones started homeschooling her learning-disabled son in the fall of 2020 when Maryland’s public schools were virtual — and she’s had no desire to send him back since they’ve reopened.

The Chinese regime declared on Aug. 1 that China’s population has begun to decline, and the problems of aging and low birthrate have become...

New concerns are being raised about the long-term outlook of higher education as enrollment numbers continue to decline and coronavirus relief funds run out.