CDC data confirms a drop in Black birth rates, but viral claims of 7% in 2 years and 17% since 2019 overstate it.

Perhaps the most profound implication of population decline lies in how we measure societal success. For millennia, growth served as the primary metric. A larger population meant more workers, more ...

California’s birth rate has hit a record low, a historic “baby bust” in a state with the world’s fourth largest economy, dipping below the birth rate of 1906, when San Francisco was recovering from ...

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.

China's birth rate has dropped to its lowest level since official records began in 1949.

GRAND FORKS – North Dakota birth rates have declined 35% since 2016, a trend some say is caused by economic uncertainty, a shift in social norms and a post-oil boom lull. Unless residents start having ...

America’s tumbling birthrate is pushing colleges toward a “demographic cliff,” where a declining population in the late teens ...

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.

In the U.S., teen birth rates are at historic lows. The overall birth rate has also declined, but women in one age group are having more babies - women in their 40s. Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga of the ...