The global birth rate is less than half what it was in the 1960s. See where birth rates are highest and lowest.

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 ...

The fall is astonishing. At its height, the global fertility rate hit 5.3 births per woman in 1963, but it has been in near-constant decline ever since. Sixty years on, it is now only around 2.2. In ...

President Donald Trump and Congress have offered tax credits and proposed legislation to tackle declining birth rates in the U.S., but according to polling, Americans don't consider the issue to be a ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. This year will bring "another significant decline of the birth rate" ...

THE COUNTRY THERE IS A MODERN BABY BOOM. WOMEN OVER 40 HAVING CHILDREN. SO ACCORDING TO THE CDC, IN 2023 MOMS OVER 40 GAVE BIRTH TO NEARLY 100,000 MORE BABIES THAN THEY DID IN 1990. SO 12 NEWS MALLORY ...

The U.S. birth rate plunged to an all-time low in 2024 after being on a downward trajectory for roughly 20 years, with soaring housing costs widely cited as a major contributing factor. Earlier this ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The declining birth rate has been a major topic of discussion, with ...

Just when you think smartphone panic can't get any more dumb, it always does. Case in point: People are insisting that phones are why people worldwide are having fewer kids. There's one very simple, ...

The newest March of Dimes report gives the US a D+ rating on preterm birth rates. The Conversation — Seven years ago, at 30 weeks into a seemingly low-risk pregnancy, I unexpectedly began to bleed.