People are having fewer children all over the world, affecting separate regions in different ways. Newsweek has mapped out which countries have the lowest and highest fertility rates to break down ...

This year will bring "another significant decline of the birth rate" for an "overwhelming number of countries," new analysis shows. Birth Gauge, an open-source database that aggregates global ...

As global birth rates continue to decline, the Trump administration has announced that it is considering policies aimed at reversing this trajectory for the United States. According to a recent report ...

The American population is becoming older, with the proportion of baby boomers increasing while birth rates are declining, according to the newly released Vintage 2024 Population Estimates by the U.S.

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 19th News/SurveyMonkey Poll found that half of Americans think we should be at least somewhat worried about the impact of falling birth rates on society.

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. The U ...

President Donald Trump, a father of five who dubbed himself the “fertilization president” during Women’s History Month, has reportedly begun to float potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth ...

California’s birth rate has hit a record low, a historic “baby bust” in a state with the world’s fourth largest economy, dipping below the birth rate of 1906, when San Francisco was recovering from ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Paying attention to women’s choices ...