The Commission on Population and Development (CPD) said it is closely monitoring the “alarming trend” among Filipino girls, particularly concerning the hike in the number of adolescent mothers under ...

The health ministry usually releases its birth statistics in December, but the announcements of the estimates were canceled in 2020 and 2021 in light of the impact from the novel coronavirus pandemic.

In 2021, 33 women died out of every 100,000 live births in the US, up from 23.8 in 2020. That rate was more than double for black women, who were nearly three times more likely to die than white ...

January 2021 was nine to 10 months after the imposition ... of the first wave of Covid-19 contributed to the decrease in live births nine months later." Social distancing measures, fears related ...

MANILA (Xinhua): The registered live births in the Philippines have decreased by 17.2 per cent in the past 10 years, from around 1.75 million in 2014 to nearly 1.45 million in 2023, the Philippine ...