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

In 2023, the fertility rate in Russia stood at 1.41 births per woman, well below the replacement rate of 2.05 needed to ...

It is no coincidence that, as the birthrate has been falling, so has the standard of living for West Australians.

A new AP-NORC poll finds most Americans do not want the government to focus on increasing birth rates, despite efforts by the ...

Among those aged 1 to 19, the net difference in mortality rates per 100,000 grew from 4 to just under 6 for firearm deaths.

Exposure to severe levels of air pollution in India is linked to adverse birth outcomes, including pre-term births and low ...

In Russia, schoolgirls will be paid to have babies. In the US, Donald Trump is proposing an incentive to get women pregnant.

Incomes in rich countries are going to grow much more slowly as populations age unless more women, older people and migrants ...

American children’s health has declined profoundly over the past few decades, a new study shows, and the issues are so ...

The U.S. faces a crisis that has yet to make itself widely known: Women are having fewer and fewer children with each passing year. Whereas in 2007 the U.S. averaged 2.12 births per woman, that number ...

Far more families are choosing to have fewer — or no — children. Many countries, including the U.S., now face a rapidly aging ...