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 ...

Births in the United States held near record low numbers in 2024, up just 1%, a statistic that could fuel President Donald Trump’s recent drive to pursue policies to encourage childrearing. Only 3.62 ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — In a noisy market in a working class neighborhood in Santiago, Marisol Romero was selling bright balloons, little dolls and flowers to passers-by. She's in her 50s and comes from a ...

The fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with fewer than 1.6 children being born per woman, federal data released Thursday shows. The U.S. was once among only a few developed ...

A new CDC report says about 3.6 million babies were both in the U.S. in 2024. That’s up by about 1% from the number of births in 2023, which was at the lowest tally since 1979. Meanwhile, the Trump ...

KELSEY PIPER: A lot of the way the economy is set up, institutions like Social Security, they were built when we had a growing population. And they do have a sort of assumption baked into them that ...

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 ...

Their estimates suggest that a $10,000 increase in home prices leads to a 5 percent increase in fertility rates among homeowners and a 2.4 percent decrease among non-homeowners.

New research has sparked fears about the American birth rate and whether there is any hope for it to improve. Americans in their 20s and 30s are planning to have fewer children than a decade ago, ...

Sharp declines among young adults in their 20s, who are much less likely to get married than they were just 15 years ago, also contribute to the birth rate decline.