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 ...

American families are shrinking, and many cite the rising cost of housing as the primary reason why. A new report by the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) points the finger squarely at the lack of ...

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.

The United States, once an outlier among industrialized countries with respect to its high birth rate, has caught up with the low fertility trend. As birth rates decline even among its large immigrant ...

Understand Singapore's record low total fertility rate of 0.87 and its implications for the country's population and economy. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Poa Pohjola, 38, and Wilhelm Blomberg, 35, of Helsinki, welcomed their first baby in July. After initially hesitating to have a child, Pohjola says she realized in her mid-30s that she wanted to ...

The Trump administration’s ideologues keep coming back to birth rates. The new National Security Strategy, released on Friday, declares that Europe is facing “the stark prospect of civilizational ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a demographer who studies American childbearing decision-making and behaviors, I’m increasingly being pulled into the ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago -- the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...