For example, in the United States, the fertility rate (the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) is now projected to average 1.60 births per woman over the next three decades, ...

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 – ...

The White House is reportedly putting together a menu of policies designed to reverse the decades-long decline in U.S. births. This is hardly news, given all of the public comments administration ...

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.

There’s been a lot of talk about birth rates this year. President Donald Trump dubbed himself the “fertilization president” shortly after reentering the White House and declared, “We want more babies.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Emily Scherer for The 19th) Half of Americans think we should be at least somewhat worried about the impact of falling birth ...

In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying less about overpopulation and more about depopulation. Comparing it to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s been a lot of talk about birth rates this year. President Donald Trump dubbed himself the “fertilization president” ...