Discover the stark differences in birth rates among Indiana counties, the impact of the aging population, and the initiatives ...

According to new CDC data, there were 3.6 million U.S. births in 2025, a 1% decline from 2024 and down 23% since 2007. The Trump administration has said it wants to reverse this trend.

Historically, the birth rate was a strong indicator of how many incoming kindergarteners a district would receive 5 years after the child was born. In 2007, the birth rate in the U.S. was 2.1 children ...

America, like many other countries, is on a path to population decline. The total fertility rate, which measures the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime, in the US for 2024 ...

The teen birth rate continues its decades-long downward trend. Researchers say many factors are at play, including less sexual activity and more access to contraception and abortion.

Washington Examiner healthcare reporter Gabrielle Etzel said the U.S. birth rate has been sliding for decades as fertility ...

*The CDC has released new data showing a continued drop in birth rates among Black women in the U.S. According to provisional data, the Black birth rate declined by 4% in 2024 alone. That puts it in ...

The political class is worried about the historic drop. But the biggest change is among the youngest women, who are the least ready to have children.

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 ...

Birth rates in the U.S. continue to fall, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. birth rates have been steadily declining for more than a decade now, ...