Tag: birth rate

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2026 - 07:54 UTC

  The irreversible smart phones and world’s dropping birth rates

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - Smart phones seem to be directly linked to a worldwide crash in the birth rate. It is “quite plausible that the modern digital media environment has had profound effects on society that have led to a decline in romantic coupling,” according to Melissa Kearney, professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame.

• Thursday, June 17th 2021 - 08:45 UTC

  Germany's birth rate jumps to its highest since 1998, after the first wave of coronavirus

  

  Germans have been busy during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 10% birth rate jump in March to the highest figure since 1998, the Federal Statistical Office said in a release. Germany had already reported a 6% rise in births in February.