The average number of children born to women in Germany has continued to fall, with the Federal Statistical Office reporting on Thursday that the birth rate was 1. 35 last year, or 2% lower than ...

Fertility is plummeting across the globe. In 2023, the birth rate fell to 1.6 (children per woman) in the United States, 1.3 ...

That's the average number of children had by women in Germany in 2024, according to the Federal Statistical Office. The average birth rate for women with German nationality was just 1.23, a figure ...

But what if the solution was actually men stepping up more?  A new paper by Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin ...