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

As overall fertility falls globally, Latin American and Caribbean countries are experiencing fertility drops that are unexpected and have been hard to explain so far. Countries that typically had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Emily Scherer for The 19th) Half of Americans think we should be at least somewhat worried about the impact of falling birth ...

Over the past few decades, birth rates have plummeted in the West. A recent Financial Times article reported that the decline in fertility has been much steeper among progressives than conservatives.

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...

While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The enrollment cliff has long loomed in the minds of higher education leaders anticipating that a sharp decline in the number of incoming students starting around 2025 could spell disaster for their ...

This article was originally published in The 19th. Half of Americans think we should be at least somewhat worried about the impact of falling birth rates on society, according to the 2025 19th ...