In a recent speech, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that measures must be taken in the Russian Federation to boost the birth rate.

In a recent article in the Independent, Dominic Lawson argues that overpopulation is a myth and revealed the way that the media often plays a role in spinning a web of confusion and untruths that the public devours.

Singapore is launching yet another campaign to promote dating among its notoriously love-shy singles as the city-state grapples with low birth and marriage rates.

At the TEDGlobal conference this week, Matt Ridley, a rational optimist stated that humans are the only species that get more prosperous as its population increases. Ridley went on to say that there are three times more people on the planet than there were in the 1950s, but people are three times ...

The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Namibia (ICW-Namibia) and the Windhoek-based Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) have documented the stories of dozens of HIV-positive women who were sterilized against their will in public hospitals.

Taiwan has one of the world's lowest birth rates and now the Taiwanese government has just released legislation that they will now be paying couples to have babies beginning January 2011. Low birthrates are becoming more and more evident throughout the world, so read what is going on in Taiwan, ...

In a new departure, pregnant women in northern Italy are to be offered 4,500 euros not to have abortions. The idea comes from the governor of the Lombardy region, Roberto Formigoni, who says no woman should end a pregnancy because of economic difficulty.

A new report has revealed that 53.4 per cent of Italian families have no children. The report said that 21.9 per cent of households have only one child and just 19 per cent have two. While mass immigration contributes to Italy's population growth, the country's rock-bottom fertility rate of 1.31 ...

As Ireland joins the rest of Europe in facing an unprecedented demographic shift, the government has announced that the retirement age will be raised to 66 in four years and eventually to 68 as part of a comprehensive reform of the pension system.

A new report from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs concludes that the number of elderly people worldwide will outnumber children for the first time in 2045, forecasting the start of a "demographic winter" some experts say could constitute the biggest international ...