With rare exceptions, developed nations are falling short of the replacement-level fertility (2.1 births per woman) necessary to maintain populations. The ramifications are significant. For example, ...

As overall fertility falls globally, Latin American and Caribbean countries are experiencing fertility drops that are unexpected and have been hard to explain so far. Countries that typically had ...

While the birth rate has declined in general over the last 50 years, mothers aged between 15 and 19 have seen the most consistently steep fall. In 1975, there were 599,926 teen births in America – ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — In a noisy market in a working class neighborhood in Santiago, Marisol Romero was selling bright balloons, little dolls and flowers to passers-by. She's in her 50s and comes from a ...

Why are people across the ideological spectrum apprehensive about falling birth rates? Some worries, like the possibility of ...

The phenomenon of falling birth rates is due to factors far beyond the mere cost of living, and state-funded benefits for ...

Countries all over the world are facing declining birth rates, sparking fears there will one day be more elderly people than working-age people to support them. For example, in the United States, the ...

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 ...

Teen birth rates in the U.S., which have been declining for two decades, have reached a record low, with significant drops in almost every state. The report, from the U.S. Center for Disease Control ...

The government wants you to have more children. As the U.S. fertility rate continues to decline, President Donald Trump’s administration is considering ways to encourage people to have more children.

Whether it's dating apps, doom-scrolling, delayed rites of passage, lofty living expenses or straying from pro-family values, Americans are having fewer babies – and they're not the only ones falling ...

The enrollment cliff has long loomed in the minds of higher education leaders anticipating that a sharp decline in the number of incoming students starting around 2025 could spell disaster for their ...