The Congressional Budget Office now projects the U.S. fertility rate will average just 1.6 births per woman over the next ...

Newsweek spoke to several experts about what positive cultural shifts the birth rate decline is illustrative of.

Sharp declines among young adults in their 20s, who are much less likely to get married than they were just 15 years ago, ...

Pew Research Center asked Americans whether they were worried about fewer people having kids in the future.

Houston's core public schools are losing thousands of students annually, with declining birth rates and a growing school ...

The U.S. fertility rate fell to an all-time low of 1.6 kids per woman in 2024 following two decades of decline, fueled in part by rising housing costs.

Today, the “dismal science,” as well as scientists and policy makers throughout the developed world are dealing with an ...

Birth rates have fallen to historically low levels across high-income countries, with many nations now well below the 2.1 total fertility rate needed to maintain population size. This demographic ...

The Corona Regional Medical Center in Riverside County will close its maternity ward at the end of January. In a statement, the hospital said the "decision was based on the decline in the number of ...

According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, Arizona's birth rate declined by 33% between 2007 and 2021.