Birth Rates – Page 5

Rural Hospitals Are Shuttering Their Maternity Units

Citing costs, many hospitals are closing labor and delivery wards, expanding so-called maternity care deserts.

A number of new incentives encouraging people to have children highlight the challenges China faces in trying to boost its declining birthrate.

Death rates in the United States have increased in recent years, as they have in Europe, the W.H.O. reported.

Maybe it’s time to shift focus.

Falling fertility has been hard to reverse, despite so many governments’ best efforts, because it’s not one thing, it’s everything.