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Artificial wombs could someday save babies born very prematurely. Even though the experimental technology is still in animal tests, there are mounting questions about its eventual use with humans.| NPR
Women in Every Rich Country Have Fewer Children Than They Desire: How Does the US Stack Up?| Medium
Demographer Lyman Stone has been awarded an Institute for Family Studies (IFS) senior fellowship to establish the Pronatalism Initiative. With governments around the world grappling for urgent solutions to a rapid decline in fertility, the IFS Pronatalism Initiative will pioneer new research to create a suite of policies to counteract global fertility decline. Stone, chief information officer of the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, joins the team at IFS where he was previously a res...| Institute for Family Studies
UNFPA State of World Population 2023| United Nations Population Fund
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These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work.| Vox
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