After ten years of continuous declines in birth rates, Spain has recorded an increase in the number of births in 2024 compared to the previous year. According to provisional figures published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), 322,034 babies [...]

In recent years, South Korea has ranked among the countries with the lowest birth rate in the world. In 2018 it reached values that were below 1, that is, less than 1 child per woman of childbearing age, and since [...]

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), we will never know how many people have died as a result of COVID-19 around the world. A recent study published in Nature collects data provided by this organization. It draws attention to [...]

Study suggests that having children impairs the cognitive health of parents  On 22 May, Spanish newspaper Levante[1] reported a study conducted by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Paris-Dauphine University. The study, published in the scientific journal Demography[2], [...]

The demographic situation in Taiwan is alarming: with the lowest birth rates in the world, the sale of pets has experienced a boom. A recent article by Nicola Smith and Chi Hui Lin published in British newspaper The Telegraph on [...]

The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics has recently reported 10.62 million births during 2021, 1.4 million less than in 2020. A new unprecedented minimum since 1950, despite the efforts of the authorities to increase the birth rate. In an attempt [...]

The Chinese government has failed to reverse its deep demographic crisis. Both the practice of selective abortions in the event that the baby was a girl, as well as the one-child policy for so many years, have resulted in an [...]

Updated 9/14/2021  The term ageism was coined in the English language in 1969, and is defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as “unfair treatment of people who are becoming old or who are old”. From a bioethical point of view, this definition is an excellent interpretation of ageism – it is [...]

Last November, we published an article about China’s demographic trend entitled China’s demographic crisis out of control. A giant with feet of clay, reporting that it is one of the countries with fewest births in the world. In this respect, an [...]

“Missing female births, driven by selective abortion of female fetuses, continue to increase across the states…” The global demographic trend is an issue of great bioethical interest. As a result of medical and cultural factors, many countries are not repopulating [...]

Demographic long-lasting winter continues… The latest CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) provisional report (read HERE) of births data published this month shows that the plummet has continued in 2020. In this respect, last September we published in News [...]

Biomedical research ethical review shows exclusion of key groups Biomedical research has made great advances in the last decades.  It has a significant value to the population health care and the equity of access for all but the eventual exclusion [...]