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.

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 ...

Declining population or depopulation has emerged after years of warnings about overpopulation. While biologists see benefits from depopulation, some economists fear reduced investment, slower economic ...

The United States' birth rate has been declining for years - even decades. In fact, the fertility rate was as high as 3.5 children per woman in the 1960s, but plummeted to 1.7 by 1976 before rising to ...

Earlier this month, after the Heritage Foundation released a 168-page report detailing a comprehensive plan to reverse our nation’s declining birth rate, National Public Radio aired a story on the ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia shared new insights into education trends during a meeting at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. Experts noted that Virginia ...

Couples who work from home at least one day a week are having more children and planning larger families, according to a comprehensive new study spanning almost 40 countries. The research, co-authored ...

The above graph shows Milwaukee births from 1990 to 2025. In 2025, Milwaukee saw around 7,400 births — its lowest number of births on record, according to preliminary vital statistics from the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s been a lot of talk about birth rates this year. President Donald Trump dubbed himself the “fertilization president” ...