The global birth rate is less than half what it was in the 1960s. See where birth rates are highest and lowest.

Fernández-Villaverde: Imagine you have a population of 1 million people. How many children need to be born for that ...

A new global demographic analysis reveals a surprising shift in fertility patterns between men and women, driven by long-term population imbalances and changing mortality trends.

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 ...