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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. fertility rate has dropped to its lowest level in decades — and the number of births is far lower than deaths in many states. We looked at fertility rates (or the number of births per 1,000 ...

The total fertility rate in the United States – the estimated number of children that the average woman will have in her lifetime, based on present trends – has generally declined over the past two ...

Earth’s population is in the midst of two notable trends that will impact humanity’s future. People are living longer than ever before. At the same time, population growth is slowing and beginning to ...