Boom

High fertility on the Faroe Islands

Missing women & foreign brides

Sep 3 • 

Boom

13

1

August 2025

South Korea's No-Kids Zones

"No kids please, we're Korean."

Aug 19 • 

Boom

37

21

Watch: An MP & a baby explain the birth rate challenge

Let's make it easier to have children

Aug 7 • 

Boom

5

1

May 2025

The Baby Meme

How policy starts cultural chain reactions

May 6 • 

Boom

12

1

March 2025

Don't count on artificial wombs

They probably won't solve the birth rate challenge

Mar 17 • 

Boom

8

1

The impact of the child penalty on fertility

And the country where motherhood means quitting

Mar 12 • 

Boom

12

1

February 2025

Finland: helping the world's happiest people have families

New essay collection from Boom x SMF

Feb 20 • 

Boom

9

January 2025

The UK's official population projections are too optimistic

A guest post from demographer Lyman Stone

Jan 31 • 

Lyman Stone

10

Should we give babies the vote?

And births rise in South Korea

Published on The Works in Progress Newsletter • Jan 28

The relationship recession & the birth gap challenge

Key things we learnt & changed our minds on in 2024

Published on Neil’s Substack • Jan 13

On epidurals & the birth of my daughter

On Christmas Day 2024, I gave birth to my first child, a little girl weighing 2.8kg.

Jan 7 • 

Boom

8

December 2024

All the single people

And how China will lose 51 million people in 10 years

Published on The Works in Progress Newsletter • Dec 18, 2024