The number of births increased in the United States for the first time in seven years, according to a new federal report. Provisional data published Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

*The CDC has released new data showing a continued drop in birth rates among Black women in the U.S. According to provisional data, the Black birth rate declined by 4% in 2024 alone. That puts it in ...

San Francisco has one of the highest shares of babies born through in vitro fertilization in the country, a Chronicle ...

Black women living in states with abortion bans were more likely to have preterm babies, compared with what would be expected ...

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.

As a demographer who studies American childbearing decision-making and behaviors, I’m increasingly being pulled into the near-constant discourse on how to raise birth rates, spurred by the record low ...

Global population trends are drawing increasing concern from experts and public figures alike. Recently, political commentator Tim Pool highlighted declining birth rates and their far-reaching social ...