Title X funding appears to be shifting away from contraception. Experts say that's unlikely to change fertility rates.

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...

Birth rates in the U.S. continue to fall, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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 ...

The above graph shows Milwaukee births from 1990 to 2025. In 2025, Milwaukee saw around 7,400 births — its lowest number of births on record, according to preliminary vital statistics from the ...

Australia's birth rate has plummeted to 1.48 births per woman, sparking concern and drawing a controversial comment from Elon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a demographer who studies American childbearing decision-making and behaviors, I’m increasingly being pulled into the ...

“The issue is that the number of people getting married is about a third less than it was in the year 2000; that is the ...

Carter’s Inc. has yet to see any negative impacts of a declining birthrate on its finances, but the company's recent ...

Once one of the continent’s demographic high achievers, the Czech Republic has, in just a few years, experienced a dramatic fall in its fertility rate – the 5th fastest in the world. Gathering data ...

New research shows a steep decline in adolescent pregnancy rates across all nine provinces from 2021 to 2025, reversing ...