You’ve probably heard people talking about falling birth rates and fears of a population collapse

It’s actually not that people don’t want kids. In fact, most do.

The real challenge is that rising living costs, unfair gender expectations, and uncertainty about the future are making it really hard for many folks to start or grow their families the way they want.

Yesterday, the UNFPA launched the State of World Population 2025 report and it found that birth rates are falling because people are unable to have the children they want.

The report describes this as a real fertility crisis.
We spoke to Kenneth Juma, an epidemiologist and senior research officer within the sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health unit at the African Population and Health Research Center in Kenya...