America's fertility dilemma

“The population of U.S. women of childbearing age (generally considered to be 15 to 44) has actually shifted toward groups that tend to have ...

The facts of the so-called fertility crisis are well publicized: Birth rates in the United States have been trending down for nearly two ...

The total fertility rate in the United States fell to 1.62 births per woman last year, a 2% decline from the year before and the lowest recorded ...

In the United States, the number of births decreased 3 percent from 2022, according to the most recent data collected by the Centers for Disease ...

Recently, the CDC released provisional data showing that, in 2023, the U.S. birth rate declined to its lowest level in history.

Instead, fertility has largely continued to follow a downward trajectory across the country, falling to a record low in 2020.2 State budgets ...

America's Fertility Policy Gap Is Bad Economics ... The birth rate is now below what is needed to grow the population. Time is running out to ...

Many politicians and pundits around the world have raised the alarm in recent years about declining fertility rates. They evoke the ominous ...

For years, some conservatives have framed the declining fertility rate of the United States as an example of eroding family values, ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that the US birth rate in 2023 fell to a record low, reversing a small uptick seen during the ...

Aside from a 1 percent increase in 2021 — a pandemic blip, maybe — that's the eighth year since 2014 that fertility rates have fallen in America ...

The global fertility rate has fallen from 5 births per woman in 1950 to 2.3 in 2021 - and even lower in the U.S., partly due to the cost of ...

The share of women precisely achieving their goals has not changed in 40 years. We've swapped out unwanted childbearing for missing babies.

Birth rates have been declining for the last few decades, and Americans are currently not having enough children to replace the country's ...

America has seen increasing diversity and declining birth rates for a long time. Racial minorities made up about 10% of the population in ...

The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low in 2020 — just as it did in 2019, and 2018. Although the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have ...

More than half the drop in America's total fertility rate since 1990 is caused by a collapse in births among women under 19. That is partly ...

Women in the United States are having babies less often, and the fertility rate reached a record low in 2023, according to data from the US ...

By 2050, over three-quarters of countries will not have high enough fertility rates to sustain population size over time.

Immigration has historically offset America's low fertility rate, but the recent dramatic drop in immigration threatens that trend.