Australia will add 400,000 migrants this year and 300,000 next year, according to budget forecasts made against the backdrop of a declining birth rate.

Source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/2023/05/15/dutton-immigration-minister-underclass/

Back when the birth rate was lower.

Source: https://www.fark.com/comments/12838982?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=comments&utm_campaign=fark

China’s and declining birth rate have raised fears of a looming demographic crisis.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/04/19/india-will-become-the-worlds-most-populous-country-overtaking-china-by-this-summer-un-says/

Environmental advocates see a bleak future for a species whose birth rate is collapsing in some areas by as much as 9 percent every year.

Source: https://thewalrus.ca/last-owl/

Estonia saw the lowest birth rate in over a century in 2022, and a fall of 12 percent on the preceding year, state agency Statistics Estonia reports.

Source: https://news.err.ee/1608979091/population-statistics-2022-record-low-births-all-time-high-migration

Health authorities in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan will allow unmarried individuals to raise a family and enjoy benefits reserved for married couples, in the latest effort to bolster a falling birth rate.

Source: https://interaksyon.philstar.com/politics-issues/2023/01/31/241558/chinas-sichuan-frees-unmarried-people-to-legally-have-children/

In Japan (birth rate 1.3), parents get a monthly allowance of $107 dollars for each newborn until two years of age.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/10/25/this-city-is-paying-new-parents-2500-for-having-a-baby-and-that-wont-even-pay-a-months-rent/

In Seoul, which has the lowest birth rate among cities and provinces in the country, six out of 10 young adults responded the same way in a survey by the Seoul Foundation of Women & Family.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/12/south-korea-splashes-the-cash-in-scramble-to-fix-fertility-crisis

Its preterm birth rate stood at 9%, and its infant mortality rate rose from 3.7 to 3.8 per 1,000 live births, March of Dimes’ figures show.

Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/05/13/march-of-dimes-annual-walk-along-the-charles-river-spotlights-maternal-and-infant-health-in-massachusetts/

Korea is the only major country whose birth rate is below 1.0.

Source: https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/korea-plunging-birthrate-alarms-government

"The birth rate is falling like crazy and it only knows one way, and that's down," he said.

Source: https://www.dailyliberal.com.au/story/8206195/dubbo-spends-ten-years-in-the-top-10-suburbs-for-the-most-births-in-nsw/?src=rss

The center last year forecast a rise in Estonia's population, resulting from the arrival of refugees from Ukraine – not the least since a larger proportion of women among the arrivals would lead to an increased birth rate, the center said.

Source: https://news.err.ee/1608903290/report-refugees-impact-on-estonia-s-population-less-than-earlier-expected

The cesarean section birth rate rose slightly, to 32.2% of births.

Source: https://abc11.com/birth-rates-united-states-cdc-report-2022-babies-born/13328203/

The only possibility of increasing the birth rate is to overhaul the entire social structure of Japan and that's never going to happen.

Source: https://japantoday.com/category/national/update1-japan%27s-fertility-rate-drops-for-7th-straight-year-in-2022

The poor birth rate - lower than the death rate - is a major worry for Russian officials.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12313127/Putins-health-minister-tells-Russian-women-improper-education-careers-childbirth-orders-babies-earlier.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

The U.S. earned a D+ grade on its preterm birth rate for the second straight year in March of Dimes’ annual report looking at the state of maternal and infant health.

Source: https://1310kfka.com/abc-news/health/11/us-earns-d-grade-in-preterm-birth-as-maternal-and-infant-care-remains-in-crisis-new-report-finds/

This is below the 'business birth rate' – the percentage of businesses that began trading – of 13.5 per cent, with around 1,435 created last year.

Source: https://www.wigantoday.net/business/more-than-1000-businesses-folded-in-wigan-in-2022-as-record-number-of-companies-close-across-the-uk-4421610

U.S. Census American Community Survey data shows that between 2011 and 2021, fewer people between the ages of 20 and 34 bore children, while the birth rate among ages 35 to 50 steadily increased.

Source: https://wisconsinwatch.org/2023/03/high-child-care-costs-low-accessibility-leads-to-smaller-wisconsin-families/

"We are in a demographic crisis and have the lowest birth rate to date.

Source: https://news.err.ee/1608988082/same-sex-marriage-amendments-debated-on-esimene-stuudio

While the effects of the pandemic weakened demand in cell banking at the beginning of the year, the Ukraine war and the resulting economic upheavals had a negative impact on the birth rate in Europe's core markets as the year progressed.

Source: https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/VITA-34-AG-459236/news/Development-of-Vita-34-AG-in-2022-stressed-by-weakened-consumption-power-of-consumers-along-with-one-43697303/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=20230430