A revealing Financial Times article discusses the dwindling fertility rates throughout the world. South Korea leads the global decline with only 0.84 children per woman. DI’s Chief Information Officer, Lyman Stone, shares insights and data from a number of countries across the world. Read the full article here.
Demographic Intelligence has released its March 2022 Fertility & Family Digest Newsletter. A number of COVID-19 continuing effects and challenges are addressed. The war in Ukraine and its seismic demographic consequences are discussed. As well, the new Texas abortion laws and how they will influence births are reviewed. As a regular feature the newsletter provides [...]
Demographic Intelligence has released its August 2021 Fertility & Family Digest Newsletter. Many aspects of how Covid -19 continues to affect families and birthrates are addressed. Some of the other important issues covered are China’s official pro-natal policies as well as birth rates in many central and eastern European countries. As a regular feature the [...]
In a provocative essay for The New York Times, Anna Louise Sussman examined the connection between "late capitalism" in the developed world and declining birthrates. As Demographic Intelligence has well documented, there is a widening gap between desired fertility and actual fertility. The essay combines anecdotes with regular people talking about the circumstances of their own delayed [...]
The steep worldwide decline in births is getting more and more attention in the news. Bloomberg recently did a deep dive on includes conversations with women across the world about their marriage and childbearing decisions. It also has a fascinating searchable visualization of falling fertility in nearly every country worldwide. Read and explore the whole [...]
In a new study posted at the Institute for Family Studies, Demographic Intelligence Advisor Lyman Stone reveals that fertility rates continue to fall across the globe. While there are a few places where birthrates are on the rise, most notably in nations that used to be part of the Soviet bloc, those are anomalies and [...]
The South Korea Fertility Forecast 2017 Baseline Report has been released by Demographic Intelligence. This report includes detailed projections for 2017 to 2020 and national projections for South Korean births from 2017 to 2030. Please contact us today for more information.
The China Fertility Forecast 2016 Baseline Report has been released by Demographic Intelligence. This report includes detailed projections for 2014 to 2017 and national projections for Chinese births from 2015 to 2030. See full press release here.
Demographic Intelligence has released its first-ever fertility forecasts for Germany, France, Italy and Spain. The forecasts provide detailed birth estimates for 2014 through 2017 as well as a long term forecast through 2030 which is based on three economic scenarios. In the United States, the DI model generated projections that have typically been more than [...]
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