As South Florida school districts predicting dwindling enrollment into next school year, the steady decline in birth rate ...

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

The number of births increased in the United States for the first time in seven years, according to a new federal report. Provisional data published Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

As a demographer who studies American childbearing decision-making and behaviors, I’m increasingly being pulled into the near-constant discourse on how to raise birth rates, spurred by the record low ...

*The CDC has released new data showing a continued drop in birth rates among Black women in the U.S. According to provisional data, the Black birth rate declined by 4% in 2024 alone. That puts it in ...

Newsweek has spoken to experts about how abortion policies are affecting fertility nationwide.

When fertility rates shrink, and economies worry, governments across the globe often turn to control women’s bodies and ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...