The White House is reportedly putting together a menu of policies designed to reverse the decades-long decline in U.S. births. This is hardly news, given all of the public comments administration ...

The nation’s fertility rate has dropped nearly every year since 2007, but this national decline masks substantial geographic variation according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

A new study projects that global fertility rates, which have been declining in all countries since 1950, will continue to plummet through the end of the century, resulting in a profound demographic ...

Michigan had the 17th-lowest fertility rate among all 50 states last year. Michigan’s general fertility rate last year was 51 ...

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 ...

The number of babies born in the United States fell again last year. According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 3.6 million births in 2025, a 1% decline from ...