Congressional forecasters have lowered their projection for U.S. population growth over the next decade by 7 million people ...

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 ...

Kennedy Jr. proclaimed the decline in birth rates to be “a national security threat.” In short, the administration has embraced rhetoric that is unabashedly pronatalist — an ideology created to raise ...

Women in the United States are having fewer children, with the country’s birth rate falling to an almost record low last year, preliminary data show. Roughly 3.6 million babies were born in the U.S.

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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 ...

The United States, once an outlier among industrialized countries with respect to its high birth rate, has caught up with the low fertility trend. As birth rates decline even among its large immigrant ...

This week, correspondent Jon Wertheim reported from Japan, the land of declining sons and daughters. Over the last 15 years, the East Asian country has seen its population decline, amid low birth ...