Map Shows Countries Paying People to Have Babies as Birth Rate Drops

Governments around the world are increasingly offering cash payments, tax breaks, housing subsidies and childcare support in an effort to persuade citizens to have more children as birth rates fall and populations age. Declining birth rates can strain a country's economy because there aren't enough people being born to support the aging population. That means greater strains on social programs like Social Security and Medicare in the United States since more and more people are using the programs, but not enough people are paying into them. Declining birth rates are a global problem, and a growing number of countries are...