The fertility rate in the U.S. was on a constant decline between 2014 and 2020 and has fluctuated since then, CDC reports.

How does the U.S. compare to other countries? According to the United Nations' world population data, the average global birth rate is 16.52 births per 1,000 people. The U.S. is among the ...

The provisional data doesn't show the birth rate by state, but the map below shows the states with the lowest and highest fertility rates in 2021, the most recent year that data is available for ...

A new map shows the breakdown of babies born in ... Last year marked the second consecutive year of decreasing birth rates, followed by a brief 1 percent rise from 2020 to 2021.

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s birth rate is set to show a ... The Asian country has recorded the world’s lowest fertility rates, but the number of newborns from January 2024 to ...

Poland's birth rate has dropped to its lowest level since World War II, raising concerns about the country's demographic and economic future. Newsweek reached out to the Polish Statistics Bureau ...

The world's population may have recently ... Governments can control interest rates and inflation rates; stimulating birth rates is far harder. We report from the land of the rising sun—now ...

Governments across Asia—in Singapore and Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul—are facing a crisis: plummeting birth rates. All of these economies have fertility rates far below 2.1, the “replacement ...

There’s been a bit of an obsession with declining birth ... world haven’t been able to reverse it. Drew Goins, Molly Roberts and Bina Venkataraman discuss some solutions to falling birth rates ...

June 20 (Reuters) - Birth rates have dropped sharply in some of the world's richest states and are likely to stay low as economic worries leave people weighing the costs of having children ...

According to the United Nations' world population data, the average global birth rate is 16.52 births per 1,000 people. The U.S. is among the developed countries with the highest birth rate ...

In 2023, the birth rate fell for the eighth consecutive year to 0.72, the lowest in the world, from 1.24 in 2015, raising concerns over the economic shock to society from such a rapid pace.