Tag: birth rate

Pregnant businesswoman giving the tasks to employees before going to maternity leave, business people standing at office and listening to her

Policies tried by countries like Sweden might prevent the fertility rate from falling further. The decline in the fertility rate is a significant development, not just in the U.S. but around the world.  Some laud the trend as an example of women’s ability to control their destiny; others decry it as an economic catastrophe.  Regardless…

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It’s happening all over the developed world. Birth rates are falling in China, South Korea, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and Greece. Things have played out more slowly in the United States, but we seem to continue moving in the same direction. The U.S. fertility rate has been in decline since just before the Great…