PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 40) October 24
In This Issue: Italy’s fertility crisis has deepened, with births dropping to the lowest level since national unification in 1861. According to Italy’s statistics bureau ISTAT, only 370,000 babies were born last year—a 6.3% decline from 2024—and just 198,000 births were recorded between January and July 2025. The fertility rate has fallen to 1.13 children per woman.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 39) October 17
In This Issue: According to a new report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australia’s fertility rate has fallen to a record low of 1.48 births per woman in 2024, sparking warnings that the nation is nearing a “point of no return.” Women aged 30–34 recorded the highest fertility rate—106 births per 1,000 women, a slight rise from the previous year.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 38) October 10
In This Issue: The FDA, under Trump appointee Dr. Marty Makary, has approved new generic abortion pills made by Evita Solution, a company that openly seeks to “normalize abortion” and make it “accessible to all.” Despite promises of a full safety review of the chemical abortion drug, the FDA instead fast-tracked approval, prompting outrage from U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 37) October 3
In This Issue: Denmark has formally apologized for decades of secretly inserting intrauterine devices (IUDs) into Greenlandic women and girls—some as young as 12—without their knowledge or consent. Between the late 1960s and early 1990s, over 4,000 were subjected to the program, part of a population-control push to suppress Inuit birth rates. Victims later faced infertility, trauma, and lifelong health complications.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 36) September 26
In This Issue: Marriage, once the cornerstone of adulthood, has become a “capstone” reserved for the financially secure. Census data show the median age for first marriage has climbed to 30 for men and 29 for women—up from 28 and 26 just 15 years ago. Between 2008 and 2023, first-marriage rates among 22–45-year-olds dropped 9%, with the steepest declines among the less educated and lower-income.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 35) September 19
In This Issue: Greece is shuttering 766 schools—over 5% of the nation’s total—after plunging fertility has left classrooms empty. Primary schools took the hardest hit, with closures rising from 247 in 2018–2019 to 324 this year, while kindergartens jumped from 312 to 358. In just seven years, the number of primary students has fallen by 111,000, a 19% drop.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 34) September 12
In This Issue: For the first time in 80 years, France recorded more deaths than births in 2024—651,000 deaths versus 650,000 births—marking a historic demographic turning point. Declining fertility since 2010 and rising deaths as baby boomers age have pushed the nation into natural population decline. Unlike Germany and Spain, which offset losses more through immigration, France has no clear strategy.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 33) September 5
In This Issue: A 19-year-old woman from Ontario died just 10 days after taking the abortion pill, after going into septic shock. Despite repeated ER visits for severe pain and bleeding, doctors failed to recognize her life-threatening infection until it was too late. Hospital staff begged to have the woman transferred to the ICU, but doctors refused. She died after going into multiorgan failure and multiple cardiac arrests.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 32) August 29
In This Issue: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a series of sweeping pro-abortion bills, further cementing the state as one of the most radical abortion havens in America. One new law ensures abortion pills remain legal in Illinois as long as they are approved by the World Health Organization—even if the FDA revokes U.S. approval. Another mandates that public colleges and universities distribute abortion pills on campus, encouraging young women to undergo chemical abortions alone in dorm rooms without physician oversight.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 31) August 22
In This Issue: Pew Research Center’s new analysis of U.N. data shows births to women under 25 are plummeting worldwide. In North America, they’ve fallen from 45% in 1950 to 23% today and are projected to drop to 12% by 2100. Europe will fall from 35% in 1950 to just 9%. Latin America and the Caribbean will decline from 39% today to 17%.