The U.S. general fertility rate fell by 1 percent in 2025, reaching a new record low for another consecutive year according to latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

With few exceptions, birth rates are falling worldwide. What does this mean? Put simply, the fertility rate describes the ...

The total fertility rate for the United States in 2017 continued to dip below what's needed for the population to replace itself, according to a new report from the National Center for Health ...

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...

The total fertility rate in the United States – the estimated number of children that the average woman will have in her lifetime, based on present trends – has generally declined over the past two ...

The total fertility rate in the European Union, which shows the number of live births per woman, fell to its lowest level in more than six decades. The rate has almost halved over the past 60 years, ...

The United States’s fertility rate fell to a new record low in 2025, extending a nearly two-decade trend, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday.

The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and new federal data shows that another drop last year brought the rate down to the lowest on record.About 3.6 million ...

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...