New reports from the Atlantic Council and Carnegie Endowment paint a grim picture of Russia’s “disastrous demographics,” a ...

The birth rate, by the way, did not really rise: Russia has had two baby booms: the first after 1945 when births delayed by war were realized, and the second in 1969 when women became entitled to ...

U.S. birth rate still is too low A recent column on the Magnolia Tribune website lamented the continuing decline in the American birth rate, along with the apparent unwillingness of too many young ...