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

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

This year will bring "another significant decline of the birth rate" for the majority of countries, new analysis shows.

Much of the attention on the world's plunging birth rate is on East Asian countries like Japan and South Korea. But Latin American countries, like Chile, are also seeing a decline in fertility.

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

The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard—It’s Worse Humanity is set to start shrinking several decades ahead of schedule. By Marc Novicoff Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The ...

Why are people freaking out about the birth rate? There's one little statistic that seems to have gained a lot of attention recently: the birth rate.

A new poll in the U.S. shows Americans are more concerned about the financial cost of raising a child rather than declining birth rates overall.

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.

WASHINGTON —While the Trump administration explores ways to encourage Americans to have more babies and reverse the United States' falling birth rate, a new poll finds that relatively few U.S.

His birth certificate and his draft card said that he was White. But Rose's original birth certificate states, "Father's race: Negro." In the 1950s, that label was especially fraught.