Even birth rates in Latin America and Caribbean, where families are typically large, are shrinking. U.S. is well below ...

With fertility rates below this threshold in all developed countries (like Japan’s 1.30 and America’s 1.66), virtually all family lineages are mathematically destined to disappear within a few ...

In fact, the birth rate has fallen almost every year since 1991. Today, at just 1.64 births per woman, American families aren't even having enough babies to meet the replacement rate of 2.1 births.

For ethnic minorities in America, birth rates have fallen sharply since 2007. Hispanic births in 2019 were almost 30% below the number that might have been born, or about 860,000 births.

The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low in 2020 — just as it did in 2019, and 2018. Although the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have accelerated this decline, the drop has been underway for years ...

New federal data shows America’s birth rate hit new lows in 2023, part of a growing trend that is threatening to slow the economy and strap government programs that run on taxpayer money. America’s ...

A new CDC report shows the U.S. birth rate hovering near a record low. If the patterns of 2024 persist, American women will have an average of 1.6 children in their lifetimes. That’s a very ...

America's Birth Rate Sparks Fears For Economy Photo-illustration by Newsweek/Getty. According to the St. Louis Federal Reserve, just under 24 births occurred per 1,000 people in 1960, whereas by ...

The new birth rate numbers are out, and they're a disaster. There are now only 59.6 births per 1,000 women, the lowest rate ever recorded in the United States. Some of the decrease is due to good ...

The general fertility rate dropped to the lowest rate since the United States Centre for Disease Control started keeping records in 1909: to 60.3 births per 1,000 women aged between 15 and 44.

America's fertility rate is now projected to average 1.6 births per woman over the next three decades, according to the Congressional Budget Office's latest forecast released this year.