The U.S. Census Bureau released new population projections this month forecasting that the American fertility rate (the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) will drop to 1.55 by ...

"Between 2013 and 2023, the percentage of births to moms aged 40 to 44 increased by almost 40%." This post appeared first in ...

The US birth rate grew by 1% in 2024, according to a new CDC report. Moms in their early 40s and late 30s experienced the biggest increases in births. Meanwhile, births declined the most among teens ...

Systemic change that offers a credible vision of the future is the only path to reversing the birth rate decline, experts ...

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The Trump administration is reportedly fielding ideas for how to increase the declining U.S. birth rate, a longtime priority of White House figures like Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk. Since ...

Poll found that half of Americans think we should be at least somewhat worried about the impact of falling birth rates on ...

Although the U.S. birth rate is on the decline, the number of women having babies in one age group has increased. Those new mothers are 40 and older.

In recent years, the birth rate in Kansas has been among the lowest it has ever been. In 2023, the Kansas birth rate was 11.6 ...

The country’s fertility rate was 1.4 births per woman in 2023, according to the most recent UN statistics. That’s well below ...