The U.S. general fertility rate hit an all-time low — again — with 53.1 live births for every 1,000 women in 2025. That’s down about 1% from the prior year, according to a new report from the National ...
The U.S. fertility rate fell to a historic low in 2025. Discover the economic pressures and demographic shifts driving this ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jonathan is a Policy Analyst in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. The total fertility rate in the U.S. has been below replacement for the past half-century. Childbearing in the ...
The total fertility rate in the European Union, which shows the number of live births per woman, fell to its lowest level in more than six decades. The rate has almost halved over the past 60 years, ...
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 ...