Clarke points out that the unprecedented 'birth dearth' is even spreading to some developing countries.

The implications of the birth dearth are potentially as far-reaching as those of the population bomb.

This effect has been termed birth dearth.

With the aging of the baby boom generation and the "birth dearth" of the 1970's, the population of teen-agers has shrunk.

A birth dearth?

Instead of talking about a nonexistent birth dearth, we need to talk about providing family planning to the 350 million couples in the world who still lack access to it.

The author of the study, Seth Forman of the Long Island Regional Planning Board, is calling the phenomenon a birth dearth.

Multitudes are entering middle age, but the generation following them into adulthood is substantially smaller, a phenomenon sometimes referred to as the birth dearth.

We can see the results today: a birth dearth among the affluent nations, and baby booms across the Third World.

It has more to do with a steep decline in the nation's production of young people - a birth dearth.