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

The Congressional Budget Office now projects the U.S. fertility rate will average just 1.6 births per woman over the next three decades, well short of the 2.1 needed for a stable population. Experts ...

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.

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 ...

Wealthy countries all over the world are struggling with historically low birth rates—a new study has looked at why this is the case and has a slightly different answer to what research has said ...

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 ...

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

TEXAS, USA — Texas birth rates have been falling in recent years, mirroring a nationwide trend, but at a faster pace than the U.S. average. Advocacy group Children at Risk cites factors such as rising ...

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

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The drop in birth rate in the state -- from 16.63% in 2006 to 12.77% in 2020 -- has had an impact on the ...