Birth rates have often declined during hard times, only to recover somewhat when the economy improves, as this week’s chart shows. In recent decades, economy-related fertility decreases have been ...

From the data they created this chart of the average birth rates in different states, in three different eras: Pre-baby boom era (1931-1945), the baby-boom era (1945-1954) and the modern era (1965 ...

Despite those numbers, only three in 10 Americans say declining birth rates are a "major problem" in the United States, ...

South Korea recorded its largest-ever gain in birth rate over the first five months of the year, its statistics agency said ...

Countries that typically had large families in those regions are joining most of the rest of the world in declining fertility. That news is not actually new. In 2023, Americas Quarterly reported that ...

The U.S. birth rate held steady in 2022 without returning to pre-pandemic levels, as women are having babies at an older age, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report revealed ...

The total fertility rate — or the number of live births a woman is expected to have over her lifetime — also fell from 2.12 in 2007 to 1.64 in 2020, below the 2.1 replacement fertility rate ...