This year will bring "another significant decline of the birth rate" for an "overwhelming number of countries," new analysis shows. Birth Gauge, an open-source database that aggregates global ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of births in the United States has continued to slowly decline or remain flat since 2015, and the fertility and birth ...

A woman at an abortion-rights protest in New York in 2023 holds a pregnancy test. The U.S. teen pregnancy rate in 2025 was 11.7 births per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19, according to provisional data ...

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In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying less about overpopulation and more about depopulation. Comparing it to ...

First, the bad news: Global fertility is falling fast. The aging populations of rich countries are relying on ever fewer workers to support their economy, dooming those younger generations to a future ...

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 ...

The teen birth rate continues its decades-long downward trend. Researchers say many factors are at play, including less sexual activity and more... Teen birth rates hit another historical low in 2025, ...