According to recent projections, U.S. population growth will slow to zero by 2056.

A better question is: Can we do more to make parenthood easier for people who want to have children?

The rate of Long Island teenagers giving birth has plummeted in the past few decades. Birth and pregnancy rates also have fallen nationwide. Increased access to and use of contraception is the biggest ...

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 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 ...

OP-ED. Instead of questioning the collective factors behind declining birth rates, the dominant narrative shifts ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written ...

Birth rates have dropped from 2,000 a year to around 1,400 in the last decade, a council says.