A new study found lowering the cost of IVF could increase births in America, but it might not be enough.

Over the past year, many news outlets have reported that the birth rate in the United States has hit an all-time low. This trend has led some experts to worry about the economic consequences of a ...

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

Something unusual is happening across large swaths of the world. Maternity wards are quieter than they’ve ever been. Villages ...

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 ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google The fertility rate in the US dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with less than 1.6 kids per woman, new federal data ...

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 showed. The U.S. was once among only a few developed countries ...

President Donald Trump, a father of five who dubbed himself the "fertilization president" during Women's History Month, has reportedly begun to float potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth ...

Michigan had the 17th-lowest fertility rate among all 50 states last year. Michigan’s general fertility rate last year was 51 ...

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 ...

If soaring home prices were the whole story behind America’s falling birth rate, the solution might be as simple as building ...