Few East Asian adults believe women have an obligation to society to have children
Two-thirds or more in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam say that women should decide for themselves whether to bear children.
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Two-thirds or more in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam say that women should decide for themselves whether to bear children.
42% of U.S. adults say they or someone they know has used fertility treatments. This is up from 33% five years ago.
India is poised to become the worldโs most populous country this year; its population has more than doubled since 1950.
China has had the world’s largest population since at least 1950 but is now projected to experience an absolute decline as early as 2023.
The number of males has exceeded the number of females since the mid-1960s. But by 2050, the worldwide sex ratio is expected to even out.
Indiaโs artificially wide ratio of baby boys to baby girls โ which arose in the 1970s from the use of prenatal diagnostic technology to facilitate sex-selective abortions โ now appears to be narrowing. Son bias has declined sharply among Sikhs, while Christians continue to have a natural balance of sons and daughters.
While the total number of U.S. births declined at the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021, the number of births at home rose.
To highlight some of Indiaโs religious, cultural and demographic differences, here are key facts about its states.
The reasons Americans without children don’t expect to have them range from just not wanting to have kids to concerns about climate change.
All major religious groups in India have shown sharp declines in their fertility rates, limiting change in the countryโs religious composition since 1951. Meanwhile, fertility differences between Indiaโs religious groups are generally much smaller than they used to be.
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