Britain is giving up on babies. Figures from the Office for National Statistics last week showed that the birth rate ...

There’s been a lot of talk about birth rates this year. President Donald Trump dubbed himself the “fertilization president” shortly after reentering the White House and declared, “We want more babies.

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

The birth rate in the U.S. declined in 2025, according to a report released in April by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Once one of the continent’s demographic high achievers, the Czech Republic has, in just a few years, experienced a dramatic fall in its fertility rate – the 5th fastest in the world. Gathering data ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Birth rates among mothers in their 20s have declined, a new report from ...

New Delhi: In a country that once worried about having too many mouths to feed, a quieter and more unexpected concern is now surfacing. Indian families are choosing to have fewer children, and it is ...

Steiner is a research associate professor and the director of research translation at CONVERGE at University of Pittsburgh. As a public health behavioral scientist who has spent my career researching ...

James Pethokoukis is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “The Conservative Futurist.” Economic coverage of falling birth rates these days sounds like a CNBC adaptation ...