Birth rate

Singapore’s baby push has a blind spot: Grandparents who need care

It is not easy to take care of parents and raise one’s own children at the same time, say the writers.

Australia warns of risks from ageing population, falling birth rates

Australia’s population growth is expected to slow to 0.9 per cent a year over the next four decades.

Over 30% of single Japanese do not want to have kids, survey shows

Pedestrians walk in front of advertisements in the Dotonbori area of Osaka, Japan, on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. The wider Osaka metropolitan area, with a population of 11 million, is Japan's largest after Tokyo with 35 million , according to data compiled by the United Nations. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg

On a Kyiv maternity ward, babies are born during air raids

Yuliia Ishchuk, 26, gives birth to her son Yaroslav as Russian drone strikes continue, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, September 2, 2026. REUTERS/Alina Smutko

Japanese woman goes viral for giving birth to seventh child amid country’s low birth rate

Forced birth control in Greenland violated women’s rights but didn’t constitute genocide, experts find

Greenlandic MPs and Danish Minister of Health and Church Affairs Ida Auken (right) attending a meeting of the Danish Parliament, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Aug 27.

Seoul fertility rate rebounds as births, marriages rise

Seoul recorded the highest growth in both births and marriages among all major cities and provinces in the first half of 2026.

Working parents to get 8 to 12 days of childcare leave a year, for kids aged 12 and below

The higher leave provisions are part of a raft of measures aimed at giving Singaporeans greater assurance to start and raise families.

Worker influx lifts Hong Kong population as birth slump worsens

Births in Hong Kong plunged 15.6 per cent to 29,700, the lowest since records began in the 1960s.

‘National Day gift’: Tan Kiat How becomes father for the 3rd time on Aug 10

Tan Kiat How with his third child Micah.

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