Baby boomers, higher mortgage rates, potential lower immigration and overbuilding in Sun Belt add to market risks.

Below‑replacement fertility is widespread across the country, according to the report by the Institute for Family Studies.

The United States’s fertility rate continued its two-decade-long decline during the first quarter of 2026, according to new ...

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

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

The number of babies born in the United States fell again last year. According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 3.6 million births in 2025, a 1% decline from ...

The iPhone was introduced in 2007, the same year the U.S. birth rate started to slide. The issues could be linked, a new analysis finds.

Women are blamed for fewer babies being born but fertility decisions are more complex than sperm meets egg. It’s time to end ...

Conservatives tend to blame women for declining fertility. They’re wrong.