The fertility rate has plummeted to 1.10, far below the replacement rate of 2.1. Women are delaying marriage and having ...

Next year is the last year that Europe's population is set to grow, as it is expected to start declining in 2026, with just one in 25 people living in the EU by the turn of the century, statisticians ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... In February 2025, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that mothers with two or more children would be exempted from income tax ...

[Vienna, August 26 2024] – Since the end of the last Ice Age, growth of human population was far from uniform, marked instead by periods of rapid expansion followed by sharp declines. The reasons ...

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vol. 21, The causes and consequences of depopulation (2023), pp. 69-80 (12 pages) Much of East Central Europe today faces the double challenge of having a ...

A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, has shown that Europe has adapted better to low temperatures than to high ...

New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...