While the average American woman is having fewer children than ever, some prominent Americans are advocating to reverse this ...

Young people are most strongly affected. If the unemployment rate goes up by one percent fertility falls by nearly 0.2 percent for those aged 15 to 19, and by 0.1 percent for young people between ...

Birth rates are falling in the world's highly developed ... Myrskylä coined the term "J-Shape," a curve in the fertility graph that starts at a very high level, then falls steeply before rising ...

(See charts.) The Grandchild Gap goes on-location in France and Italy (a country with a fertility rate of 1.2, the lowest in the world.) According to Antonio Golini, demographer at the University ...

Data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2023, the U.S. fertility rate dropped 3% from 2022, marking a record low. Americans are currently not having enough ...

Amid growing evidence of slowing fertility rates in the United States, a new report contained a pair of surprising details from two divergent age groups: A growing number of women older than 40 ...

Until a few years ago, the Czech Republic stood out in the region for its relatively high fertility rate and was often cited – including in Poland – as a model of successful demographic policy. Today, ...

However, growth in these countries comes against the backdrop of a slowing global fertility rate. In 1990, the average number of births per woman was 3.2. By 2019 this had fallen to 2.5 births per ...

CNN analyzed fertility trends over the past eight years, comparing state rates to the national average and identifying states with the highest and lowest rates by region. At a recent event in ...