Two New Studies Ask: Did the iPhone Cause Birthrates to Decline?

Jun 08, 2026 - 10:01
Updated: 3 hours ago
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A smartphone rests beside a chart showing the decline in global birth rates since 2007.
Modern smartphones rolled out in 2007, the year that fertility rates began falling. Two studies say that is not a coincidence.

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Christopher Holloway

Christopher Holloway is the founder and director of Progressive Robot, a UK-based technology company. A full-stack engineer with more than two decades of experience, he works across PHP development, ecommerce, Linux infrastructure, technical SEO and AI automation, and writes here on technology, AI, hardware and software.

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