Kennedy Jr. proclaimed the decline in birth rates to be “a national security threat.” In short, the administration has ...

The US birth rate grew by 1% in 2024, according to a new CDC report. Moms in their early 40s and late 30s experienced the biggest increases in births. Meanwhile, births declined the most among teens ...

The U.S. Census Bureau released new population projections this month forecasting that the American fertility rate (the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) will drop to 1.55 by ...

Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax ...

The U.S. birth rate plunged to an all-time low in 2024 after being on a downward trajectory for roughly 20 years, with soaring housing costs widely cited as a major contributing factor. Earlier this ...

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Chinese people will pay a 13% sales tax on contraceptives from 1 January, while childcare services will be exempt, as the ...

Systemic change that offers a credible vision of the future is the only path to reversing the birth rate decline, experts ...

Screenshots of two unrelated headlines about family planning that were published by The Guardian in 2017 have been shared ...

In recent years, the birth rate in Kansas has been among the lowest it has ever been. In 2023, the Kansas birth rate was 11.6 ...

The country’s fertility rate was 1.4 births per woman in 2023, according to the most recent UN statistics. That’s well below ...