Far more families are choosing to have fewer — or no — children. Many countries, including the U.S., now face a rapidly aging ...

This year will bring "another significant decline of the birth rate" for the majority of countries, new analysis shows.

Fears about the future—such as climate change, environmental degradation, wars, and pandemics—are impacting fertility ...

For decades, discussions around global population have largely centered on overpopulation. Yet, a quieter, more insidious ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The total fertility rate for the United States in 2017 continued to dip below what's needed for the population to replace itself, according to a new report from the National ...

The country has repeatedly broken its own record for having the world's lowest birth rate: 0.98 babies per woman in 2018, ...

What if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the ...

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 accelerated this decline , the drop has been underway for years.

Since the Social Security Trustee's Report's projections assume that the total fertility rate (TFR) rebounds from its present 1.76 back up to 2.0 births per woman (see my May article on the topic ...

The total fertility rate in the U.S. fell to 1,765.5 births per 1,000 women, the lowest point since 1978. The fertility. Hispanic women held the highest fertility rate at 2,006.5, ...

The total fertility rate, defined as the average number of children who would be born to a woman in her lifetime, has declined for all communities between the fourth National Family Health Survey ...

The U.S. total fertility rate (TFR) has dropped to below 1.73 births per woman according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).