The U.S. fertility rate fell to a historic low in 2025. Discover the economic pressures and demographic shifts driving this national birth decline.

As South Florida school districts predicting dwindling enrollment into next school year, the steady decline in birth rate will contribute to the dramatic year-to-year student loss.

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 progress. The numbers paint a stark picture. The global ...

In terms of the fertility crisis, what are governments doing right - and wrong - to address the problems of their shrinking populations?

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 fertility rate. The total fertility rate for a given ...

As overall fertility falls globally, Latin American and Caribbean countries are experiencing fertility drops that are unexpected and have been hard to explain so far. Countries that typically had large families in those regions are joining most of the rest ...

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. The “big, beautiful” tax bill, which passed a ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. 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