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 ...

The world's population is becoming steadily greyer with the number of people aged over 65 on course to overtake the number of infants for the first time in history, a study has found.

A new study has shown that one in five women are remaining childless as an increasing proportion choose not to marry and put their career before raising a family.