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A Chinese government think tank is urging the country's leaders to start phasing out its one-child policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015, a daring proposal to do away with the unpopular policy....

Philippine President Benigno Aquino is squaring off against his country's powerful Catholic church in a bid to give people free access to the means to limit the size of their families. The predominately Catholic country has one of Asia's fastest-growing populations together with significant levels of chronic poverty. While neighbors have accelerated towards prosperity, the Philippines has lagged.

With earth’s population headed for 10 billion, much of the growth is in sub-Saharan Africa, where trends that have lowered birthrates elsewhere have not yet caught on.

Family planning experts say keeping girls in school is one way to curb the population boom in high-fertility regions.

Left unchecked, climate change aligned with population explosion and low agricultural yields will drastically increase global poverty and hunger over the next two decades, warns the international aid organization Oxfam in a report released today ...

China will continue to limit most families to just one child in the coming decades, state media said Monday, despite concerns ...

Limiting births would allow India time to curb a population that threatens to turn its demography from an asset into a burden.

For years, China curbed its once-explosive population growth with a widely hated one-child limit that at its peak led to forced ...