Utah’s fertility rate has dropped again, according to federal data. The decline also means Utah’s rank nationally has fallen in comparison to other states. In 2022, only three states had a higher ...

Jonathan is a Policy Analyst in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. Americans’ family-size preferences have not changed much since 1975. But since the Great Recession, U.S. adults ...

House Bill 329 would extend paid maternity leave for state employees from six weeks to 12 weeks. Here’s why that matters.

The total fertility rate for the United States in 2017 continued to dip below what's needed for the population to replace itself, according to a new report from the National Center for Health ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — The fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with less than 1.6 kids per woman, new federal data released Thursday show. The U.S. was once among only a few developed ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with less than 1.6 kids per woman, new federal data released Thursday shows. The U.S. was once among only a few ...

The total fertility rate in the United States – the estimated number of children that the average woman will have in her lifetime, based on present trends – has generally declined over the past two ...

The U.S. fertility rate has dropped to its lowest level in decades — and the number of births is far lower than deaths in many states. We looked at fertility rates (or the number of births per 1,000 ...

Elizabeth Bailey receives funding from. Globally, mothers are having fewer children. Yet despite this latest observed decline in birth rates, the number of twins and triplets being born today is ...