South Korea's birthrate, the world's lowest, rises again amid signs of easing demographic crisis

South Korea's birthrate rose for a second-straight year in 2025, government data showed on Wednesday, in a further sign that ...
The Voice

Jamaica’s baby crisis: PM warns of ‘serious social issue’ as country’s birth rate plunges

There has been a significant decline in Jamaica's total fertility rate (TFR), dropping from 4.5 births per woman between 1973 and 1975 to just 1.9 in 2021.

Russia's war on Ukraine puts women off having children — and that could spell economic disaster

Four years of war have discouraged Ukrainian and Russian women from having children, and that could impact their economies in ...

Ukraine is becoming a nation of widows and orphans as it confronts a demographic ‘catastrophe’

Olena Bilozerska and her husband always knew they wanted children. She was 34 and they were ready to start trying when the war erupted in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The couple joined the fight and ...
Manila Standard

Filipino fertility rates drop below replacement level—PIDS study

A PIDS study reveals Philippine fertility rates have fallen below replacement level to 1.8 children, driven by economic constraints and urban commute crises.

The business of fertility is booming in Canada — and big money is buying in

Abdalla is not the only happy one. Deep-pocketed investors have been buying up Canadian fertility clinics at a prodigious rate and are happily making money. Publicly funded health care is a sacred cow ...

To fix Canada’s fertility crisis, we need a cultural shift

That poses an enormous threat to Canada’s future economic stability (we’ll have too many retirees and not enough workers), ...
The Express Tribune

NEPRA rolls out new regulations abolishing net metering

The government may face political backlash as solar net metering is almost dead in Pakistan after the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) abolished exchange of electricity units in ...
Newsweek

NATO Has a Birth Rate Problem

Births in Türkiye fell again in 2025, continuing a decline that has put NATO's youngest population on a course President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called a "demographic disaster." It’s a familiar ...
The Escapist

League of Legends’ Mel receiving sweeping changes to address 40% ban rate and 45% win rate problems

Since Mel joined the League of Legends roster following Arcane Season 2’s conclusion, she has been a significant problem for the game’s balance. And that’s about to change. Mel’s largely uninteractive ...
Business Insider

Trump's big swing at credit card interest rates targets a growing American problem

Trump called for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%. For years, limited regulation has allowed companies to charge high rates, and consumers have fallen further into debt. Some ...
Wall Street Journal

America’s Biggest Power Grid Operator Has an AI Problem—Too Many Data Centers

America’s AI boom is pushing the nation’s largest power-grid operator to the brink of a supply crisis. Sixty-seven million people in a 13-state region stretching from New Jersey to Kentucky get their ...