(See charts.) The Grandchild Gap goes on-location in France and Italy (a country with a fertility rate of 1.2, the lowest in the world.) According to Antonio Golini, demographer at the University ...

Birth rates are falling in the world's highly developed ... Myrskylä coined the term "J-Shape," a curve in the fertility graph that starts at a very high level, then falls steeply before rising ...

The surge in egg prices is the ongoing bird flu outbreak, which has decimated poultry stocks at farms across the country—more than 111 million birds—mostly egg-laying hens—were infected or culled ...

Young people are most strongly affected. If the unemployment rate goes up by one percent fertility falls by nearly 0.2 percent for those aged 15 to 19, and by 0.1 percent for young people between ...

Data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2023, the U.S. fertility rate dropped 3% from 2022, marking a record low. Americans are currently not having enough ...

Utah’s fertility rate has dropped again, according to federal data. In 2022, only three states had a higher total fertility ...

However, growth in these countries comes against the backdrop of a slowing global fertility rate. In 1990, the average number of births per woman was 3.2. By 2019 this had fallen to 2.5 births per ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation The total fertility rate—the average number of births per woman—in Europe is already at 1.46, which is significantly below ...