How America’s Fertility Rate Will Change by 2100

The U.S. Census Bureau released new population projections this month forecasting that the American fertility rate (the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) will drop to 1.55 by ...
Mod Moms Club on MSN

Birth rates in the United States are declining - but not for one specific age group. Here's why

"Between 2013 and 2023, the percentage of births to moms aged 40 to 44 increased by almost 40%." This post appeared first in ...
PBS

So you want to increase your country’s birth rate? Experts say it’s tough

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 ...
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The Looming Demographic Winter: Why the Global Birth Rate Crisis Is Worse Than You Think

What many might perceive as a gradual shift is, in reality, a profound demographic transformation with far-reaching implications that could reshape economies, societies, and even our understanding of ...
Fast Company

3 things the pronatalist movement gets wrong about birth rates

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 ...
Newsweek

The Good News Hidden in the Birth Rate Decline

Governments all over the world are trying to reverse the birth rate decline, with almost every country on the planet facing the challenges that may come with fewer babies being born. A major issue is ...
RealClearScience

Falling U.S. Birth Rates Won't Lead to Population Collapse

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 ...
Live Science

Dangers of falling birth rates in the US have been 'dramatically overstated,' experts say

While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...
Marketplace

Financial incentives aren’t enough to raise birth rates

The government wants you to have more children. As the U.S. fertility rate continues to decline, President Donald Trump’s administration is considering ways to encourage people to have more children.
EdSurge

Lower Birth Rates Could Cause Enrollment Issues for Schools

The enrollment cliff has long loomed in the minds of higher education leaders anticipating that a sharp decline in the number of incoming students starting around 2025 could spell disaster for their ...
The Daily Signal

The Partisan Divide in Sinking US Birth Rates

Charles A. "Chuck" Donovan is president of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research and education arm of the Susan B. Anthony List. A few decades back, a Wall Street Journal editor named James ...