The fertility rate in the US dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with less than 1.6 kids per woman, new federal data released ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Keith Humphreys, professor at Stanford, about the falling prison population in the U.S., and the reasons behind that trend.

While "the dramatic decline in the teen birth rate since the early 1990s has occurred across all race/ethnic and socioeconomic groups," as Wildsmith said, the declines "have been somewhat uneven ...

Why America’s growing boomer population and falling birth rates are cause for concern The declining birth rate has become a growing political issue.

What Government Can and Can’t Do About Birth Rates Flora Matty holds her newborn child Malaki after giving birth in the Family Birth Center at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., February 1 ...

A new bill introduced by Ohio Republicans aims to encourage increased birth rates by designating the weeks between Mother's Day and Father's Day as "Natural Family Month." ...

Kid Rock claimed on Fox News that America was suffering a low birth rate because "no guy wants to sleep" with "ugly ass, broke, crazy" liberal women.

Poll: Elon Musk is obsessed with America’s falling birth rate. Everyday Americans? Not so much. The new Yahoo News/YouGov survey shows that most U.S. adults aren’t worried about the issue ...

In a nutshell Families need at least 2.7 children to avoid extinction—far higher than the conventional 2.1 replacement level fertility rate due to random variations in offspring numbers. With ...

The birth dearth has its economic dimensions, but it is ultimately a cultural and even spiritual sickness.

Most developed countries are barreling toward a demographic cliff. And it's worse than we thought. New research published today in PLOS ONE reveals that the long-accepted "replacement level" of 2.1 ...