Industrial countries have largely completed what is called the "demographic transition"—the transition from a largely rural agrarian society with high fertility and mortality rates to a predominantly ...

Falling fertility rates could mean most countries ... access to contraception and abortion and lower child mortality rates, mean women on average have fewer children. So for lower-income countries ...

Russia’s population briefly dipped below 142 million in 2009 -- a post-Soviet low -- but has recently rebounded due to migration, increasing fertility, and declining mortality. In the Caucasus ...

Fewer people who gave birth in 2022 received adequate prenatal care compared with the prior year, and more Bay Staters used fertility treatment, according to a new report from the Department of ...